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“We Are a Movement”: Students advance Embedded Planning at the 2019 National Planning Conference

May 14, 2019 By Jonathan P. Bell

messages on board re embedded planning
We Cannot Plan From Our Desks! is the rallying cry of Embedded Planning.

A district citizens’ group from East Harlem, in anticipation of a meeting it had arranged with the Mayor and his commissioners, prepared a document recounting the devastation wrought in the district by remote decisions (most of them well meant, of course), and they added this comment: “We must state how often we find that those of us who live or work in East Harlem, coming into daily contact with it, see it quite differently from . . . the people who only ride through on their way to work, or read about it in their daily papers, or, too often, we believe, make decisions about it from desks downtown.” I have heard almost these same words in Boston, in Chicago, in Cincinnati, in St. Louis. It is a complaint that echoes and re-echoes in all our big cities [emphasis added].

Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)

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Filed Under: Feature Posts, Los Angeles, Planning, Professional Development Tagged With: American Planning Association, City Planners, City Planning, Embedded Planning, Florence-Firestone, Future Planners, Los Angeles, Planning Theory, Praxis, South Central Los Angeles, South Los Angeles, Unincorporated, unincorporated areas, unincorporated communities, Urban Planners, urban planning

An Urban Planner on the Ground in South Central Los Angeles

January 30, 2018 By Jonathan P. Bell

Community sign for East Rancho Dominguez
Community sign for East Rancho Dominguez, formerly known as East Compton. Photo: Jonathan P. Bell

 

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I wear a blue County jacket and dark pants, denim or Dickies, when I’m out doing zoning enforcement inspections. This isn’t a regulation uniform. I don’t have to wear it. I’m an urban planner, not a cop. [Read more…] about An Urban Planner on the Ground in South Central Los Angeles

Filed Under: Civic, Feature Posts, Los Angeles, Planning, Professional Development Tagged With: City Planners, City Planning, Compton, East Compton, East Rancho Dominguez, Florence-Firestone, Future Planners, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Lynwood, South Central Los Angeles, South Los Angeles, Unincorporated, unincorporated areas, unincorporated communities, Urban Planners, urban planning, Watts, West Athens-Westmont, Willowbrook

Response to Comments: The Informal Housing Debate Remains Open

November 12, 2014 By Jonathan P. Bell

Photo 1: “We Legalize Garage Conversions” contractor’s truck photographed in the City of Los Angeles

Earlier this summer, I published an article on these pages remarking on the growing scholarship on informality in the U.S. housing market. [1] My article was intended as an opening salvo to planning academics who, as I see it, fail to understand American informal housing from the implementation side of planning—the enforcement and regulatory standpoint. [Read more…] about Response to Comments: The Informal Housing Debate Remains Open

Filed Under: Affordable Housing, Feature Posts, Los Angeles, Planning Tagged With: Affordable Housing, City Planning, Code Compliance, Code Enforcement, debate, Discourse, Enforcement, housing, Informal, Informal Housing Debate, Informality, Land Use, Land Use Regulation, Los Angeles, Planning, Regulation, Response to Comments, Unpermitted, urban planning, Zoning, Zoning Enforcement

Images, Instagram, and City Planning

December 28, 2012 By Clement Lau

#CITYPLANNING ScreenshotIt takes vision to plan and implement creative ideas to improve our communities.  Vision as used here refers to a vivid, creative conception or anticipation of what could be. [Read more…] about Images, Instagram, and City Planning

Filed Under: Design, Feature Posts, Los Angeles, Planning, Professional Development Tagged With: City Planning, Frederik Polak, Images, Instagram, Los Angeles, Martin Krieger, Photographs, Randall Arendt, Tomography, Urban Tomographies

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