UCLA Ziman Center Director Stuart Gabriel explains the Federal Reserve's latest announcement that it will not alter the stimulus program on Marketplace: Continue reading

Matt Schiavenza at The Atlantic Cities has an interesting post about the relationship of China's booming economy over the last 35 years and the break-neck pace of its commercial construction. The 15-story Ark Hotel in Changsha, China was built in SIX DAYS. Watch the time-lapse video: Continue reading

The Los Angele Architecture and Design Museum's new exhibit Never Built: Los Angeles poses an interesting question: "Why is Los Angeles a hotbed of great architects, yet so lacking in urban innovation?" A+D's new show is a collection and narrative of LA's architectural and transportation design "what ifs" that could... Continue reading

The UCLA Hammer Museum just annouced a $100K grant from the Goldhirsh Foundation's My LA2050 challenge. Hammer's Arts ReSTORE LA: Westwood proposal hopes to tap LA's creative community for Westwood Village revitalization. “We’re all thrilled to have received LA2050’s arts and cultural vitality grant,” said Hammer director Ann Philbin. “Now... Continue reading

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Vincze Miklós' io9 post,"Lush, High-Tech Ecotopias of Today and Tomorrow" channels global high-tech and carbon neutral urban centers. "Europa City", suburbs of Paris by Danish architecture firm BIG, led by Bjarke Ingels. Continue reading

Did you ever wonder what the shifting geography of L.A.'s class separation looks like? Richard Florida at The Atlantic Cities has an interesting analysis of the Census tracts here. Continue reading

NIMBY and affordable low-income housing battle in a galaxy far, far away. Nicely played, George... Grady Ranch, Marin County, California - Skywalker Properties, LTD Continue reading

$1.25 million by Peter Bren will create advanced MBA course and Bren Fellows program LOS ANGELES - Peter Bren, a nationally recognized leader in the real estate and investment advisory industries, has pledged a gift of $1.25 million to the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate, a joint center of... Continue reading

Yes, according to a January 30 article published by nonprofit news organizations ProPublica and National Public Radio. The joint report has sparked a Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) investigation into the bailed-out mortage behemoth’s bet-hedging on “inverse floaters.” Bloomberg Businessweek reported that FHFA and Freddie Mac agreed to stop making... Continue reading

Unemployed Irish artist Frank Buckley describes a house he built out of 1.4-billion decomissioned euros as a monument to the “madness” of the country’s construction bust. Is it art, a green building project, a metaphor for the global economic crisis? According to this Huffington Post article and following video from... Continue reading

The New York Times, The Atlantic and Slate Magazine offer interesting takes on 2006 Federal Open Market Committee (FMOC) transcripts that reveal dismissive banter, back-patting, broken economic forecasting models, and lacking awareness of the connection between the housing and financial markets. Continue reading