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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

Converting Garages into a Dissertation: A Conversation with Jacob Wegmann

June 17, 2014 By Jonathan P. Bell

Unpermitted garage conversion with added living space in unincorporated South Central Los Angeles
Unpermitted garage conversion with added living space in unincorporated South Central Los Angeles

Today, planning scholars are examining informality in the United States housing market with the gusto once   reserved for the Central Place Theory and other mainstays of planners’ education. [1] This surge of research is encouraging. Until recently, the subject of informal dwelling units in the U.S. housing market remained glaringly understudied. The developing scholarship builds on pioneering – though scant – research on “shadow markets” [2] and “accessory apartments” [3] in American single-family housing. [Read more…] about Converting Garages into a Dissertation: A Conversation with Jacob Wegmann

Filed Under: Affordable Housing, Feature Posts, Los Angeles, Planning Tagged With: Code Compliance, Code Enforcement, Dissertation, Enforcement, Extralegal, Gateway Cities, housing, Informal, Informality, Inspection, Jacob Wegmann, Los Angeles, Regulation, South Central Los Angeles, Southeast Los Angeles, Unpermitted, urban planning, Zoning

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