AltWeeklies Wire
What's Smart About Smart Growth?new
L.A.'s plan for the future expects you to give up the yard, the car -- and learn to love density.
L.A. Weekly |
David Zahniser |
06-01-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Peddling Smart Growthnew
Call your project "smart" -- even when it isn't -- and get millions in public funds.
L.A. Weekly |
David Zahniser |
06-01-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Smart Growth's Biggest Boosters Love Suburban Livingnew
If any one principle provides the underpinning for smart growth, it's density -- so why are so many smart-growth advocates avoiding density in their own lives?
L.A. Weekly |
David Zahniser |
06-01-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Tom Labonge: The Mayor of (Fire-Blackened) Griffith Parknew
On the day that fire threatened Los Feliz, LaBonge behaved like a councilman should.
L.A. Weekly |
David Zahniser |
05-18-2007 |
Disasters
Tags: disasters
Serving Two Mastersnew
L.A. pension boards plan to pour a king's ransom into urban real estate pushed by insiders like Henry Cisneros.
L.A. Weekly |
David Zahniser |
04-06-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Powered by Paymentsnew
ACORN bills itself as grassroots, but it's on the mayor's payroll in L.A.
L.A. Weekly |
David Zahniser |
02-12-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
The End Of Murdernew
If New York can slash homicide by 76 percent, can Los Angeles contemplate a vanishing point?
L.A. Weekly |
David Zahniser |
01-30-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Bitch Slappednew
Stripped of his takeover plan, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa talks partnership with schools prez Marlene Canter -- but this is war.
L.A. Weekly |
David Zahniser |
01-02-2007 |
Education
Tags: Education
The Final Hours of Miguel Contreranew
The 911 call said he went in for a card reading, but the death of the labor leader prompted a prostitution raid. What really went down at the
botanica?
L.A. Weekly |
David Zahniser |
10-26-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Welcome to Gentrification Citynew
We examine the perils and pleasures of gentrification.
L.A. Weekly |
David Zahniser |
08-24-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Soulless Convertsnew
L.A. tries to deal with the rush on condos.
L.A. Weekly |
David Zahniser |
08-17-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Let the Homeless Innew
A shelter for vets sounds better than more car-dependent business to the wealthy residents of Westside L.A. neighborhoods.
L.A. Weekly |
David Zahniser |
05-11-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
The $10 Million Interventionnew
Mayor Villaraigosa's role in saving the South Central Farm could cost Los Angeles a bundle.
L.A. Weekly |
David Zahniser |
03-30-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
