APA Planners Press

An historian assesses the dynamic changes in South Los Angeles in the two decades since the 1992 riots.

On certain days throughout the year, Los Angeles is closing parts of the city to car traffic and inspiring Angelenos to imagine a new urban future.

Two planners argue for a new understanding of the political geography of America.

An urban geographer compares the radically different New York worlds of Warhol’s Factory and Jacobs’s Greenwich Village — and comes to some provocative conclusions.

An urban historian assesses the complex legacy of Jane Jacobs, including the rise of community activism and the marginalization of professional planning.

The second installment in a two-part series examines the passionate debate about how to rebuild New Orleans and prevent future disaster.

The first installment in a two-part essay on post-Katrina New Orleans offers a precise narrative of the environmental engineering that made catastrophe inevitable.