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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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

Welcome to Gentrification Citynew

We examine the perils and pleasures of gentrification.
L.A. Weekly  |  David Zahniser  |  08-24-2006  |  Housing & Development

Soulless Convertsnew

L.A. tries to deal with the rush on condos.
L.A. Weekly  |  David Zahniser  |  08-17-2006  |  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

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

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