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What Brian Wilson, the National Guard, and L.A. Tell Us About The Future of Where
Los Angeles is not the same city it was 60 years ago, when "California Girls" met the Watts riots. But we need to embrace the change, not demonize it.
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Untying The Urban Garlic Knot
Older city neighborhoods often have good housing stock, and efforts to stabilize some of them are working. But can these efforts scale to the point…
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Garlic Knot Cities
The centers of these legacy cities are dense and satisfying. The suburbs are doing fine. But what are the neighborhoods in between?
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The question is not how to get people back to the office workplace. The question is what do office-based workers need to thrive.
Maybe people who type all day for a living need something more than sitting in the extra bedroom, joining the occasional zoom call, and picking up the…
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"Even Though We've Become Untethered, We Must Find Ways To Reconnect With What's Relevant"
A conversation about the future of workplaces with Lisa Picard of Oxygen Investment Management, an urban planner and one of the nation's leading experts…
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How Shops Can Help Revive City Neighborhoods
Big urban shopping malls and office-supported retail are out. But authentic urban bookstores and catalogue stores are in.
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Build More Of Everything, Closer Together
Noah Smith says "shops" will save American cities. Nope. After Covid, the secret to vibrant American urban streets involves businesses that require…
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The Future Of Where
The Future Of Where
Sometimes in the post-pandemic world, it seems like it doesn't matter "where" you are! In some ways that's true, but in other ways "place" matters more than ever. "The Future Of Where" explores the ways in which place and community still matter.
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