Tag: SMa.r.t.

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

"If you want creativity, cut one zero from your budget; if you want sustainability, cut two zeros." —Jaime Lerner, Brazilian ...

I read with interest the SMa.r.t. column, "Making affordable housing ... affordable." (April 26). Adaptive reuse as housing is an ...

Santa Monica residents are being squeezed by two related realities: 1) increasing property values affordable only to a small minority, ...

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

The City Council is getting ready to approve a controversial new Zoning Code. Many would describe the currently proposed code ...

As a community, we have spent more than six years establishing goals and objectives in defining the LUCE, a new ...

Last week the Planning Commission voted to keep the two Activity Centers on Wilshire Boulevard as proposed in the LUCE. ...

In the SMa.r.t. group's recent column, "Yesterday's streets tomorrow," Mario Fonda-Bonardi said that to fight traffic in Santa Monica, we ...

" ... long, lonely corridors .... and pedestrian danger zones" — this is how the Chamber of Commerce president, Laurel ...