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Note: The SMa.r.t. guest author this week is longtime Santa Monica resident Richard Orton. He is concerned about the direction ...

There are two different visions for our downtown. Do we want to be a densely populated urban place, a smaller ...

Our City is blessed with an array of transportation options, perhaps the envy of any small city in this state ...

Our last two SMa.r.t. columns focused on the advantages of low-rise, 2- to 4-story buildings and how our typical low-rise ...

We have written about adaptive re-use in our previous columns of "The Magic of Adaptive Reuse" and "Shape Up". We ...

In the late 1950s, '60s and into the '70s, there was an architect in Los Angeles that picked up the ...

Adaptive re-use. Re-purposing. Remodeling. Addition. Re-habilitating. Restoring. All these phrases are terms that describe breathing new life into older buildings. ...

Editor's note: This editorial is the second of a series. For the first editorial, see "Water Woes" in the Jan. ...