Happy Celia Cruz day to all those in L.A. who celebrate! Azucar! Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez will proclaim Oct. 17 as Celia Cruz Day in honor of the Cuban singer and Latin music icon. abc7.com/post/los-ang...

Key reading for urban planners. www.planning.org/blog/9318918...

Pocket from Mozilla is closing. All saved links are gone Nov 12, 2025 (extended date). Reminds me of when we lost del.icio.us. I'm considering going "old school" saving links on a TXT file. Meantime, I've resumed using Diigo for link saves and social bookmarking. www.theverge.com/news/672924/...

This was a good read in @newrepublic.com. newrepublic.com/article/1596...

Embedded Planning praxis is the throughline of the Borough of Hollidaysburg 2035 Comprehensive Plan. c1typlann3r.blog/2025/10/14/e...

I wrote this annotated bibliography 20 years ago and it's just as relevant today. medium.com/@c1typlann3r...

Yoda Latino

Photo essay: Embedded Planning Guide to Uptown Whittier medium.com/@c1typlann3r...

I'm honored to deliver the opening keynote on Embedded Planning praxis at the APA Washington Conference 2025 in Tacoma. c1typlann3r.blog/2025/10/01/e...

Posting this here like a bookmark to read later variety.com/2025/film/co...

i subscribed to carceral history 💡

City of Quartz, Mike Davis

We are honoring Mike Davis at the @urbanhistorya.bsky.social UHA Conference 2025 in Los Angeles. c1typlann3r.blog/2025/09/29/w...

We hosted the annual community walk in Florence-Firestone with Cal Poly Pomona 1st year MURPs. c1typlann3r.blog/2025/09/28/c...

This is the next chapter in the Embedded Planning story. c1typlann3r.blog/2025/09/28/t...

Embedded Planning returns to @priceschool.usc.edu 💡 c1typlann3r.blog/2025/09/26/e...

Speaking of code enforcement . . .

Speaking of code enforcement . . . apnews.com/article/port...

I'm moderating this important discussion for our communities. c1typlann3r.blog/2025/09/23/s...

Speaking of code enforcement . . .

City officials say they’ve uncovered 25 prolonged detentions in violation of its land use permit, which could provide an opening to shut down Oregon’s only ICE facility. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Speaking of code enforcement . . . nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

We're honoring Mike Davis at UHA in LA. Urban History Association Conference 2025 Metropolitan Majorities: UHA 11th Biennial Conference Biltmore LA, Oct 9-12, 2025 Cities of Quartz: How Mike Davis Transformed Urban Studies (Roundtable) Sat, Oct 11th, 1:15-2:45pm c1typlann3r.blog/2025/09/21/c...

Currently reading, "A Case for Beauty: History and Philosophy of Code Enforcement" by Eugene Alper. www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...

My 2023 photo essay on Embedded Planning medium.com/@c1typlann3r...

Vacant Lot Activation this Saturday 9/20 in Florence-Firestone c1typlann3r.blog/2025/09/18/v...

@c1typlann3r.bsky.social 10th floor experience:

Why is no one having a good time on the parkways? I specifically requested it #nyc

I submitted on the waitlist to join the relaunched Digg. That was a good site back in the day. I like Alexis Ohanian’s ideas about bringing it back. www.digg.com

I’m on a panel recognizing the legacy of Mike Davis with Carolina A. Miranda, Kyle Paoletta, David Kipen, & Mike The PoeT Sonksen at the Urban History Association Conference 2025 in Los Angeles. Join us Sat, Oct 11, 1:15-2:45pm at the Biltmore Hotel in Downtown LA. c1typlann3r.blog/2025/09/10/m...

Via @laist.com: "Downtown LA’s historic The Original Pantry Cafe will reopen its doors" -> laist.com/news/food/do... #LosAngeles

When I started with the LA Bureau of Street Lighting four years ago, I set a personal goal to create a public map of all of BSL’s historic/decorative street lights, along with the historical context, in time for the Bureau’s centennial this year. It’s now live!: experience.arcgis.com/experience/a...

This was my goodbye message when I concluded my part-time lecturer position at Cal Poly Pomona Urban and Regional Planning c1typlann3r.medium.com/thank-you-ca...

"Combining the terms spatial and justice opens up a range of new possibilities for social and political action, as well as for social theorization and empirical analysis, that would not be as clear if the two terms were not used together." Edward W. Soja www.jssj.org/wp-content/u...

Today in Florence-Firestone 🚶‍♀️ 👟 🚐 c1typlann3r.blog/2025/08/31/f...

Nicely done, JPB!

Kudos to Fort Wayne, IN, for being the first U.S. city to deliberately adopt the "Embedded Planning" framework, which involves planners not working from behind their desks but within communities. And kudos to @c1typlann3r.bsky.social for developing and disseminating the framework

I researched and wrote this annotated bibliography for Professor Susanna B. Hecht’s UP 239 Utopias and Dystopias course at UCLA Urban Planning. Other than a few spelling errors corrected here, this is the same paper I submitted on June 13, 2005. c1typlann3r.medium.com/surveillance...

If your children have begun frantically reading books you have never seen before, it is Labor Day. If your children are tossing their books into empty oil drums and lighting them on fire, it is Memorial Day.

Continuing to release writings from my Student Papers Archive, here is Googling "New Regionalism": c1typlann3r.medium.com/googling-new... This analysis was submitted on April 20, 2005 in Edward W. Soja’s UP 230 Intro to Regional Planning course at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

The mike Davis take from city of quartz that LA plays a distinctive dual role as utopia and dystopia VINDICATED [gavel bangs]

Damn if only there were a perfect book about LA called “City of Quartz” by Mike Davis

Mike Davis' spirit lives on in LA ✊

Getting offline for awhile, been staring at my phone all day. Much love and solidarity with Angelenos, my favorite indie press comrades on the ground in LA, and allies across the country all united in the fight against this regime and its kidnapping apparatus

Nothing more LA than this woman selling dirty dogs in between rubber bullets and tear gas

Mike Davis: City of Quartz

this piece was originally up at this same location during the 92 riots....

Guerrilla crosswalks drive city officials crazy, but they're a remarkably effective street safety tactic. Sympathetic media coverage is all but guaranteed -- esp when local leaders overreact.

If you are interested in the fascinating and provocative career of Mike Davis you might find this retrospective on his work of interest. read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...