Planning Los Angeles
Los Angeles isn't planned; it just happens. Right?
Not so fast! Despite the city's reputation for spontaneous evolution, a deliberate planning process shapes the way Los Angeles looks and lives. Editor David C. Sloane has enlisted more than 35 essayists for a lively, richly illustrated view of this vibrant metropolis. Together they cover the influences and outcomes of planning for a diverse population, regulating land use, and providing transportation in a sprawling city, protecting green space, and supporting economic development.
Planning Los Angeles launches a new series from APA Planners Press. Each year Planners Press will bring out a new study on a major American city. Natives, newcomers, and out-of-towners will get insiders' views of today's hot-button issues and a new way of seeing the patterns and perils of urban evolution.
Podcast
Timothy Mennel, editor of APA Planners Press, interviews editor David C. Sloane and contributors Todd Gish and Andrew Whittemore, on their newest book, Planning Los Angeles.
APA's Roberta Rewers talks with Aaron Paley about the CicLAvia bicycle and pedestrian event in Los Angeles.
About the Editor & Contributors
Editor
David C. Sloane is a professor and director of undergraduate programs in the Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. He serves as an associate editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association and recently completed his second term as a regional representative on the governing board of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
Contributors
| Elisa Barbour Amanda Berman Ken Bernstein, AICP Vinayak Bharne Marlon G. Boarnet Janis Breidenbach Margaret Crawford Elizabeth Currid-Halkett William Deverell Meredith Drake Reitan William Fulton, AICP Lark Galloway-Gilliam Sam Gennawey Todd Gish Gilda Haas Greg Hise Anna Jacobsen Martin Krieger Robert A. Leiter, FAICP Travis Longcore |
Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris Doug McCulloh Sarah Mawhorter Vinit Mukhija Juliet Musso Dowell Myers Aaron Paley Simon Pastucha Steven A. Preston, FAICP Christian L. Redfearn Lisa Schweitzer Josh Sides Kenneth C. Topping, FAICP Joshua Wheeler Andrew H. Whittemore John Wilson Jennifer Wolch Goetz Wolff David Yamamoto |
Slideshow
Planning Los Angeles features a number of full-color images of the city.
In the News
Unplanned Los Angeles, Not So Says This Book
Carrensnotes.blogspot.com
April 30, 2012
20 Years Later: The Ambiguous Legacies of the Los Angeles Riots
Places
April 19, 2012
Los Angeles hosts a 10-mile-long block party
Marketplace
April 16, 2012
Take a look back at another wonderful CicLAvia
Curbed LA
April 16, 2012
CicLAVia's Aaron Paley on the spectacle's trajectory, notions of public space
The Planning Report
April 15, 2012
CicLAvia: Getting down, changing perspective, seeing LA from a different angle
LA Streets Blog
April 11, 2012
Unplanned L.A.? Think Again
The Atlantic Cities
April 11, 2012
Planning Los Angeles book, edited by David Sloane, now available
Urban ethics and theory
April 6, 2012
Planning Los Angeles: An Interview with David C. Sloane
Planetizen
March 30, 2012
Advanced Praise
"These newly minted, masterful essays honestly face the losses and gains of planning in a City of Angels that belongs to all of us."
—Kevin Starr, University of Southern California and California State Librarian Emeritus