More profoundly, Los Angeles in particular suffers from what can only be described as the opposite of rational urban planning. For decades, the city sprawled haphazardly in whichever direction was ...

Rent could be rising for multiple reasons, experts said, but it’s likely climbing faster near the fires because thousands of ...

Books & the Arts / In the aftermath of this year’s catastrophic fires, architects and urban planners begin to consider how to ...

Across Los Angeles, rent hikes have led to fewer bus and train riders in an example of how California’s housing crisis is ...

With fires cutting off some exit routes and spreading fast after ignition, cars have clogged the streets in Los Angeles—one of the densest urban areas in the country and a city already known for ...

“Now suddenly we’re going to get it — but just for this,” said Paavo Monkkonen, a professor of urban planning and public policy at U.C.L.A. Los Angeles won’t garner beautiful new ...

The authors forecasted a postfire “construction boom” that would involve “an immense amount of planning ... Daniel Orenstein, an urban fire expert and Los Angeles native, echoed these ...

In Los Angeles’s chaparral-covered ecosystem ... “Decades before we knew about climate change, we knew this kind of urban sprawl was a big risk.” The planning flaws that exacerbated the ...

Still, thousands of other homeowners in the urban center of Altadena ... director of regional planning for the County of Los Angeles. "We've been on this trajectory to look at long range plans ...

Loren Elliott for The New York Times Greg Pierce, a researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, who studies water resources and urban planning, echoed the concerns over water systems ...