From these meetings the Los Angeles Regional Planning History Group emerged (now called the Los Angeles Region Planning History Group or “LARPHG”.) Concerned planners from local agencies, such as the City of Los Angeles and the County of Los Angeles, and archivists from the Huntington Library, gathered informally in the early 1980s to establish a strategy for preservation and education.
Documents that comprised the framework of pivotal events in city and regional planning were being lost to an overwhelming lack of storage space and the diminishing archival priorities of local governments. Downtown News, Los Angeles Times, The Harvard Citizen , English Journal , Princeton Alumni Weekly , The Malibu Times , You Are Here: The Journal of Creative Geography, and, back in the day, The Daily Princetonian.By the late 1970s, the historical legacy of major land use plans and documents for the Los Angeles region was disappearing at an alarming rate. Publications to which Josh has contributed include Next City, Planning Magazine, Architect Magazine, The Architect’s Newspaper, Los Angeles Magazine, Sierra Magazine, , Los Angeles Review of Books, Scary Mommy: Club Mid, Santa Monica Next, Darling Magazine , Volleyball Magazine, , L.A. Josh is a contributing editor to and conducts its “ Planners Across America” interview series. This website is organized according to a wide range of themes and types of articles that Josh has written over the years: long-form feature stories, urban planning news, book reviews, blogs and opinion, education and college admissions, and miscellany. Josh previously edited The Planning Report and the Metro Investment Report, monthly publications covering, respectively, land use and infrastructure in Southern California. A journalist with a penchant for covering cities and other large, tangible things, Josh Stephens is the former editor of and current contributing editor to the California Planning & Development Report, the state’s foremost independent publication dedicated to urban planning.
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