Which Way, L.A.?
Another Big 'Smart Growth' Development Is Downsized
Casden West LA has been scaled down. Have community values prevailed or has "smart growth" taken another hit from "NIMBYism?" What's best for LA's urban future?
By Warren Olney • • 23m ListenFirst, Millennium Towers in Hollywood, now Casden West LA: two major developments touted as helping LA to grow up have been scaled down. Have community values prevailed over wretched excess or has "smart growth" taken another hit from "NIMBYism?" We hear our latest debate on what's best for LA's urban future. Also, we've all looked up at the Goodyear Blimp hovering majestically over the Rose Bowl, Dodger Stadium and the Coliseum. We get a report from ground level.
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Banner image: Casden West LA's rendering of the Sepulveda shops entrance adjacent to the Expo Line station.
In this episode
2 storiesThe Ups and Downs of Urban Planning
Next month the new Los Angeles City Council will vote on the much reduced Millennium Towers in Hollywood, those skyscrapers planned to dwarf the Capitol Records Building.
Read the story16 minRiding High in the Goodyear Blimp
In a region synonymous with the history of flight, Southern California's best-known aerial vehicle doesn't have wings, it has fins. How does this best known and most romantic of aircraft really work? Who are the people who keep it flying? KCRW's Saul Gonzalez took a long look at the Goodyear Blimp at the Carson Air Field.
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