CONTENTS
acknowledgments vii
Chapter 1: Introduction
Multiple-cities 1
Javid C. Sloane
Chapter 2: History of Planning
Challenging the Myth of an Unplanned Los Angeles 19
Todd Gish
Regulating Visual Blight 35
Meredith Drake Reitan
1970 Centers Concept Plan for Los Angeles 36
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lA's Love-Hate Relationship with Nature 45
Kenneth C. Topping, FAICP
Neighborhood Councils 53
Juliet Musso
Everyday Los Angeles 62
Margaret Crawford
The City as Textbook 67
Meredith Drake Reitan
Chapter 3: Evolving Demographics
Metropolis of Dispersed Diversity 69
Dowell Myers, Anna Jacobsen, Sarah Mawhorter, and Joshua Wheeler
The Ambiguous Legacies of the 1992 Riots 86
Josh Sides
Tinker-Toy Urbanism 91
Meredith Drake Reitan
Minority-Majority Suburbs Change the San Gabriel Valley92
Steven A. Preston, FAICP
LA Housing Stories 99
Janis Breidenbach
Finding Public Space on Private Beaches 105
Meredith Drake Reitan
Chapter 4: Land-Use and Environmental Policies
One Hundred Years of Land-Use Regulation 107
Andrew H. Whittemore
Almost New Urbanism 1 22
Vinayak Bharne
Glendale's Downtown Specific Plan 1 29
Alan Loom is
Regreening the LA River 1 37
Meredith Drake Reitan
Planning as a Tool for Battling the Fast-Food Invasion 139
Lark Galloway-Gilliam
More Than a PSA 145
Meredith Drake Reitan
Chapter 5: Mobility and Infrastructure
Back to the Future in Transportation Planning 147
Marion G. Boarnet
Regional Planning in Southern California 162
Robert A. Leiter, FAICP, and Elisa Barbour
Ballot Box Planning for Transit 1 71
Lisa Schweitzer
Reducing Pollution at the Port 179
Meredith Drake Reitan
Systemic Change Through CicLAvia 1 80
Aaron Paley and Amanda Berman
A Train on Rubber Tires 188
Meredith Drake Reitan
Chapter 6: Parks and Public Space
Green Spaces in the Auto Metropolis 191
-Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
The Afterlife of a Master Plan 204
Greg Hise and William Deverell
An Orchard Spirals Out 212
Meredith Drake Reitan
Reestablishing the Connection with Physical Planning and Design 214
Simon Pastucha
Managing Development Through Urban Growth Boundaries 222
William Fulton, AICP
Unpaving Paradise: The Green Visions Plan 230
Jennifer Wolch, Travis Longcore, and John Wilson
Planning a Great Civic Park 240
Meredith Drake Reitan
Chapter 7: Economic Development
Policy and Community in Los Angeles Development 243
Planning Ordinance Injects New Life into Historic Downtown 253
Ken Bernstein, AICP
The Evolution of Entertainment Retail 264
Sam Gennawey
Politics of Food and Culture 271
lith Drake Reitan
Community Benefits, Negotiations, and (InlJustice 272
Gilda h'aas
From Barbie to Banksy 279
Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
What the (Economic) Tide Left Behind 285
Christian L. Redfearn
From KAOS Comes Community 292
Meredith Drake Reitan
Endnotes 294
References 303
Contributors 320
Credits 324