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Assuming platkin is required, the following 552 results were found.

The Scam That Keeps On Giving

October 08 2012 problem is not a lack of technical solutions. It is City Hall’s continued, but unstated commitment to mansionization. (Dick Platkin is a city planning consultant who teaches sustainable city planning at USC’s Price School of Social Policy. He is a...

https://www.citywatchla.com/archive/3890-the-scam-that-keeps-on-giving
- Type: Article
- Author: Dick Platkin
- Category: ARCHIVE
- Language: *
Debunking LA’s Urban Legend: “Green” McMansions

October 01 2012 from being quickly wrecked by speculators bulldozing charming older homes and then building and flipping McMansions? (Dick Platkin is a city planning consultant who teaches sustainable city planning at USC’s Price School of Social Policy. He is a...

https://www.citywatchla.com/archive/3843-debunking-las-urban-legend-green-mcmansions
- Type: Article
- Author: Dick Platkin
- Category: ARCHIVE
- Language: *
Greening Los Angeles – Filling the Mostly Empty Glass

August 02 2012 USC’s Sol Price School of Public Policy in May 2012 and looks forward to pursuing graduate work in urban planning. Dick Platkin teaches courses on sustainable city planning at USC and is a CityWatch contributor. He can be reached at:...

https://www.citywatchla.com/archive/3545-greening-los-angeles-filling-the-mostly-empty-glass
- Type: Article
- Author: Max Tomaszewski and Dick Platkin
- Category: ARCHIVE
- Language: *
The Hollywood Community Plan is for Buildings Not People … Here are 4 Inexpensive Ways to Change That

May 10 2012 Plan in the form of amendments to the City’s Capital Improvement Program before this Update precedes any further. (Dick Platkin is a CityWatch contributor. He lives in Los Angeles where he teaches, consults, and writes on city planning. He is also...

https://www.citywatchla.com/archive/3140-the-hollywood-community-plan-is-for-buildings-not-people-here-are-4-inexpensive-ways-to-change-that
- Type: Article
- Author: Dick Platkin
- Category: ARCHIVE
- Language: *
The Hot-Button Hollywood Community Plan will Fail … Here’s Why

April 02 2012 large buildings but otherwise ignore the public and private amenities that allow high density living to succeed. (Dick Platkin lives in Los Angeles where he teaches, consults, and writes on city planning. He is also active in the Beverly Wilshire Homes...

https://www.citywatchla.com/archive/2985-the-hot-button-hollywood-community-plan-will-fail-heres-why
- Type: Article
- Author: Dick Platkin
- Category: ARCHIVE
- Language: *
Hollywood Needs More than Window Dressing and Bogus Claims to Boom Again

February 06 2012 which an Iowa farmer builds a baseball diamond that magically materialized high caliber baseball teams and games. ●●● (Dick Platkin was featured at the Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Coalition [lanccoalition.org]… LANCC … meeting on Saturday as were...

https://www.citywatchla.com/archive/2787-hollywood-needs-more-than-window-dressing-and-bogus-claims-to-boom-again
- Type: Article
- Author: Dick Platkin
- Category: ARCHIVE
- Language: *
The Hollywood Community Plan Update -- A Fiasco in the Making

December 22 2011 to be the clear local lesson from the Wall Street financial crisis that began in 2008 and has yet to be resolved. (Richard Platkin is a veteran planning professional and an occasional contributor to CityWatch. He can be reached at [email protected])...

https://www.citywatchla.com/archive/2630-the-hollywood-community-plan-update-a-fiasco-in-the-making
- Type: Article
- Author: Richard Platkin
- Category: ARCHIVE
- Language: *
Serious McMansion Players are Fly-by-Night Contractors Engaged in Speculation

August 23 2011 will follow his lead in their own Council Districts since mansionization is an issue throughout the entire city. (Richard Platkin is a veteran planning professional and a homeowner in the Beverly-Wilshire area.) Photo credit: Park LaBrea News-Beverly...

https://www.citywatchla.com/archive/2145-serious-mcmansion-players-are-fly-by-night-contractors-engaged-in-speculation
- Type: Article
- Author: Richard Platkin
- Category: ARCHIVE
- Language: *
Reversing the Field in Sunland-Tujunga

June 20 2011 it may end up being amended in ways that were unintended at the beginning of the process. "This looks like a way for Dick Platkin to make some money," another source in the Sunland Tujunga community told me. "I can't see any community upside to opening...

https://www.citywatchla.com/archive/1825-reversing-the-field-in-sunland-tujunga
- Type: Article
- Author: Joseph Mailander
- Category: ARCHIVE
- Language: *
McMansions Blocking Mr. Tarlow’s View from the Cheap Seats

May 26 2011 Kari Bower, Susan Collette, Nora Holtz, Barry Karas, Roseanne Keynan, Gayle Levin, Jason Neidleman, Greg Nise and Dick Platkin, AICP. The authors are longtime Beverly Wilshire homeowners and neighborhood activists. One (Richard Platkin) is also a...

https://www.citywatchla.com/component/content/article/1728-mcmansions-blocking-mr-tarlows-view-from-the-cheap-seats?catid=311
- Type: Article
- Author: Shelly Wagers
- Language: *
What the Small Group of Noisy Opponents of Mansionization Didn’t Tell You

April 22 2011 VOICE IN THE CHEAP SEATS - Let’s talk about what Dick Platkin didn’t tell you in his recent CityWatch article on McMansions. (link) The Great Zoning War of the last five years was fought between those who wanted to limit the size of new homes and those...

https://www.citywatchla.com/archive/1860-charles-tarlow
- Type: Article
- Author: Charles Tarlow
- Category: ARCHIVE
- Language: *
McMansion Law Toothless, Scourge Continues Unabated

April 19 2011 act, to share your views with Council District 5. It is better to do something now rather than point fingers later. (Dick Platkin is city planning consultant on the board of the Beverly Wilshire Homes Association. Please send questions or comments to...

https://www.citywatchla.com/archive/1844-dick-platkin
- Type: Article
- Author: Dick Platkin
- Category: ARCHIVE
- Language: *