Opinion
In a region known for NIMBYism, San Jose is one of the only cities with the politics to build dense housing by rezoning the sprawl.
Feb. 6, 2023
California
Job-housing ratio OKd for Platinum Triangle assures bad traffic, urban experts say. City vows transit solutions.
Dec. 17, 2007
The Bay Area tech titans’ plan to create a utopia in Solano County contains a kernel of wisdom about the kind of suburban growth the state wants and needs.
Sept. 23, 2023
Climate & Environment
Freeway pollution and noise are dangerous. But ‘green’ developments coming in their place can displace families living next to such transportation corridors.
July 12, 2021
A national panel of urban affairs experts, after a week spent creating a model to revitalize a commercial neighborhood in South-Central Los Angeles, proposed several solutions Friday, including the creation of a city agency that would deal solely with economic development issues.
Nov. 14, 1992
To the editor: Once again, the Los Angeles Times has published an op-ed article that praises the densification of our cities.
Oct. 27, 2019
Real Estate
This year, a 10-year-old office building in Irvine was demolished and replaced by housing.
Oct. 23, 1988
We need to bring new life and definition to the “California Dream.”
Sept. 13, 1993
The plan for Central City West was to be a demonstration of the concept of a public/private partnership, with the private sector financing the drafting of a public plan to guide the intense development of the prime 314-acre area bordering downtown just west of the Harbor Freeway.
Aug. 20, 1989
World & Nation
Militant youths, who in October sparked some of Britain’s worst urban violence since 1981, have been accused by Scotland Yard of trying to murder police officers by trapping them in housing-development garages flooded with gasoline that they planned to ignite, a British weekly newspaper reported.
Jan. 13, 1986