A robust crop of recently published books explore California land use in all of its complexity, from north to south, coast to forests, and plenty of places in between
Los Angeles-based planner Max Podemski authors A Paradise of Small Houses, celebrating the history and future of working-class housing from row houses to triple-deckers to the dingbat.
In his new book, Josh Stephens plumbs the depths of California's good and bad -- and tries to find the reason why urban life there is so oddly compelling.
In Talk City, his collection of blogs from the Ventura City Council, Bill Fulton talks about the difference between talking and doing in politics -- and the emotional toll it all takes. >>read more
The new book The Color of Law traces how systematically residential segregation -- and wealth -- was constructed in postwar America -- California included. >> read more
