Engineering Nature, Igniting Risk: LA’s Fires and a Century of Landscape Manipulation

May 27, 2025.Reading time 45 minutes.

Editor’s note: In anticipation of what we all believe will be a stellar UHA conference this October 9-12 in Los Angeles, we are featuring Los Angeles as our theme this month. This is our fifth post; you can see others from this month as they are published as well as past pieces on the city […]

A Struggle for Self-Reliance: A Brief History of Community Plans in Barrio Logan, 1978-2023

February 28, 2024.Reading time 18 minutes.

Editor’s note: In anticipation of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History’s (SACRPH) 2024 conference to be held in San Diego on the campus of the University of California San Diego, The Metropole’s theme for February is San Diego. This is the final entry. For more information about SACRPH 2024, see here. For […]

Justice in Movement

April 22, 2020.Reading time 11 minutes.

By Genevieve Carpio When I hear the term “urban transit,” it conjures a flurry of images. My brain instantly turns to public forms of transportation. This includes your buses, metro lines, transit stops, maybe even bicycle share programs. If I sit on the term a bit longer, I start to think of abstract planners making […]