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  • A Simple Home Remedy for Olympic Fever

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-The announcement that Los Angeles will host the 2028 Olympics has lead to a highly contagious disease: Olympic Fever. It is particularly virulent among the same well-off crowd that imagines a few iconic buildings designed by...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13781-a-simple-home-remedy-for-olympic-fever

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • The “Just-No-Money-for-That” Blues 

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Although I have taken the Los Angeles Times to task for its coverage of local planning issues, especially when it became a mouthpiece for the no on S campaign, on Sunday, July 30, 2017, the paper got it right. So, hats off to...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13725-the-just-no-money-for-that-blues

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • No, Gentrification Doesn’t Just Happen … City Hall Promotes It at Every Turn

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--In an editorial critical of the pushback against gentrification in Boyle Heights, the Los Angeles Times portrays gentrification as a result of blind economic forces that also uplift local communities. I challenge both of these...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13680-no-gentrification-doesn-t-just-happen-city-hall-promotes-it-at-every-turn

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Which Vision for Los Angeles: An Updated General Plan or Another Real Estate Bubble?

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-By now most of us know what ails Los Angeles. To cite some of the city’s most imminent emergencies: Expanding housing crisis resulting in evictions, homelessness, overcrowding, and long commutes to distant suburbs with affordable...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13622-which-vision-for-los-angeles-an-updated-general-plan-or-another-real-estate-bubble

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • The Other Great Abdication: Professional City Planning’s retreat from Professional City Planning

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--What a pleasant, but short-lived surprise to discover that in late June 2017 UCLA’s renowned Luskin School of Public Affairs sponsored a forum entitled, Can LA fix its Broken Planning System? Needless to say, I read an article...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13581-other-great-abdication-professional-city-planning-s-retreat-from-professional-city-planning

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • LA’s Two New Climate Advocates: Long on Spin, Short on Details

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--While we plebeians dawdle away our lives cooking, cleaning, studying, working, raising families, and helping friends and relatives in need, we can (kind-of) sleep comfortably knowing our local elected officials are hard at work...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13522-la-s-two-new-climate-advocates-long-on-spin-short-on-details

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Occupy LA: Lessons Learned

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Before memory fades completely, this is the time to take stock of the Occupy mass movement of 2011. A few years into the Great Recession, it began with Occupy Wall Street, and then quickly spread to over 1000 encampments, including...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13458-occupy-la-lessons-learned

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • City Hall’s Universal Fixit: Green Lighting Real Estate Speculation

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-When you are hammer, the whole world looks like a nail, or in the case of the City of Los Angeles, when you are totally wedded to real estate speculation, you only have one hammer, up-zoning to fix all urban ills/nails. But, there...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13423-city-hall-s-universal-fixit-green-lighting-real-estate-speculation

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Bottom-Up Planning is a Powerful Tool for Updating LA’s Outdated Plans

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Last week I explained why Los Angeles is so poorly planned, but there is no reason that Angelinos must be tied to the substandard city planning that emanates from City Hall. It is one thing to explain it, as I did in my previous...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13383-bottom-up-planning-is-a-powerful-tool-for-updating-la-s-outdated-plans

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Ain’t Got Time for Real Planning at LA’s City Hall

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Among City Hall’s elected and appointed officials it easy to round up a quorum of Clinton Democrats, with non-presidential candidate Mayor Eric Garcetti at the head of the table. If you look hard you can also find a momentary...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13339-ain-t-got-time-for-real-planning-at-la-s-city-hall

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • CityWatch Today: Angry Healthcare Voice

    Bell. Brian Trautman looks at Memorial Day through a contemporary lens. Mike Cohen makes ‘Impeachment Popcorn’. And, Dick Platkin exposes fake traffic solutions. And, that’s just for starters. Check it out. Let me know what you think. We’re good at...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/world-watch/13300-citywatch-today-angry-healthcare-voice

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ken Draper
    • Category: WORLD WATCH
    • Language: *

  • Los Angeles Still Suffering from Fake Traffic Solutions

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Yes, traffic congestion in Los Angeles is bad and getting worse. In fact, Los Angeles has the worst traffic congestion of any US city. A recent study from the Washington State based Inryx institute concluded that Angelinos are, on...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13286-los-angeles-still-suffering-from-fake-traffic-solutions

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • New Jane Jacobs Doc: Valuable Planning Lessons for LA … Needs Updating in the Era of Pay-to-Play

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-I recently saw the new documentary about Jane Jacobs, called Citizen Jane: Battle for the City. Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times praised it to the heavens, but my take is more muted. The film’s history of New York City in the...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13200-new-jane-jacobs-doc-valuable-planning-lessons-for-la-needs-updating-in-the-era-of-pay-to-play

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • The 1992 LA Civil Disturbance: Can’t We All Just Stop the Spin?

    public is not apparently bamboozled by reports of LAPD reforms and feel good stories about ethnic fusion restaurants. (Dick Platkin reports on local planning issues for City Watch. Progressive Planning published an earlier version of this article....

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13148-the-1992-la-civil-disturbance-can-t-we-all-just-stop-the-spin

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • LA’s Climate Change March is Saturday in Wilmington … Keep LA’s Skies Blue … Be There!

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--If your email box is like mine, it is filled with invitations to Saturday’s Climate Change march and rally in Wilmington’s Banning Park. This rally begins at 11 AM, and it will be followed by a march to the nearby Tesoro Refinery,...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13111-la-s-climate-change-march-is-saturday-in-wilmington-keep-la-s-skies-blue-be-there

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Trickling Down to Nowhere: The Free Market’s Failure to Fix LA’s Housing Crisis

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-It goes by many names – the free market, trickle-down economics, supply side economics, market magic, market fundamentalism, and neo-liberalism – but its content is the same. Let the private sector maximize its profits through...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/13057-trickling-down-to-nowhere-the-free-market-s-failure-to-fix-la-s-housing-crisis

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Climate Change: No Time for Angelenos to become Smug about Smog

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-The jury is no longer out. Our new President, Donald Trump, is the climate change denier-in-chief. He has called climate change a Chinese plot. He has appointed another unabashed climate change denier, Scott Pruitt, to run the...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12981-climate-change-no-time-for-angelenos-to-become-smug-about-smog

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • The Real Reasons Why LA’s General Plan Must be Updated

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-A hint: it is not to bestow financial gifts to major real estate investors and contractors, even if they pay-to-play and expect General Plan updates to be their Rx for even fatter profits. Here are some real reasons why LA urgently...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12925-the-real-reasons-why-la-s-general-plan-must-be-updated

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Is LA Ready to Learn Some Lessons from New York City?

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING--From the days of Not Yet New York in the 1980s to the present, some Angelenos consider New York City to be the opposite of their vision for Los Angeles. This is understandable because New York City, especially Manhattan, has much...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12911-is-la-ready-to-learn-some-lessons-from-new-york-city

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • The LA Times Should School Itself before Preaching about Planning the Future of LA

    PLATKIN ON PLANNING-It is distressing, but hardly surprising, that the Los Angeles Times would use a lead editorial to preach about planning the future of Los Angeles without cracking open the city’s adopted General Plan or mentioning climate change...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/12881-the-la-times-should-school-itself-before-preaching-about-planning-the-future-of-la

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
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