Los Angeles

Suburbia's Not Dead Yet

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While millions of American families struggle with falling house prices, soaring gasoline costs and tightening credit, some environmentalists, urban planners and urban real estate speculators are welcoming the bad news as signaling what they have long dreamed of -- the demise of suburbia.  read more »

Political foreclosure

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Ever since his election in 2005, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has been portrayed as a political comer with a future  read more »