As Deputy Director for Urban Design and Mobility in Glendale, CA, a teacher of urban design at Woodbury University, and one of the Mayor's appointees on the City of Pasadena's Design Commission, Alan Loomis has thoroughly installed himself in the shifting scene of southern Californian urbanism. After moving from Michigan to get his MArch at SCI-Arc in the late 1990s, Loomis has seen enough of Los Angeles' urbanism to be convinced that whatever post-sprawl paradigm gets adopted here will become the guidebook for many more cities in the US, particularly those ever-expanding desert cities in the southwest.
Loomis joined me in Archinect's studio to talk about urban design in the public and private realms, pedagogical approaches to urban design vs. urban planning, and his earlier days in LA as an Archinect editor.
Listen to One-to-One #12 with Alan Loomis:
Shownotes:
Clarence A. Perry's neighborhood unit diagram
Glendale's Space 134 proposal to cap the 134 freeway with a park
Klyde Warren Park in Dallas, TX
What Alan Loomis is reading:
More info on Alan Loomis at his site, Delirious LA.
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