Summer 2012 Los Angeles-What Future for the “City of the Future”?

Seventh Generation

• How Imperial Decline Contributes to Urban Decay in Los Angeles (644 KB)
  by Dick Platkin

Focus on Los Angeles

• Here’s Why We’re Not Finding Real Solutions to
  Homelessness in LA
  by Steve Clare
• Learning from Los Angeles: People’s Planning in the City of Angels
  by Lauren Ahkiam
• The Los Angeles 1992 Civil Disturbance: A Race Riot or an Urban Rebellion?
  by Dick Platkin
• South “Central” Los Angeles: Residents Fight to Save Their Beloved Community in the Face of USC Expansion Plans (484 KB)
  by Paulina Gonzalez
• Transit-Oriented Classism in Los Angeles: A Look at the Ghetto Blue (618 KB)
  by Lisa Schweitzer
• The Costs of Transit-Oriented Gentrification: Transit, Development, and Displacement in Boyle Heights
  by Will Dominie, Reina/Rey Fukuda, Osvaldo García, Hector Gonzalez,
  and Lucero Herrera
• The Greening of Los Angeles: Filling the Mostly Empty Glass
  by Max Tomaszewski
• Public Safety or Public Insecurity: Who Watches the Watchers? (466 KB)
  by Jackie Leavitt and Hamid Khan
• Through Whose Lens? Defining Stakeholders in Planning Little Tokyo
  by Susan Nakaoka
• Big Box Battle Continues: The People versus Walmart in Los Angeles
  by Aiha Nguyen
• Book Review Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives
  Reviewed by Tara Leanne Gallen

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