Sprawl Hits the Wall: Confronting the Realities of Metropolitan Los Angeles.

This report, by the USC Southern California Studies Center and the Brookings Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, shows that the Los Angeles region is at a crisis point. There is limited additional land on which to grow, and there are few additional resources left to consume, which means that the region can no longer run away from its problems: a distressed regional core, a severely taxed environment, and a fractured governance structure. The report argues that the Los Angeles region should, and can, grow differently
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SC2 Urban Policy Seminars
Building on the Southern California Studies Center’s (SC2’s) report, Sprawl Hits the Wall: Confronting the Realities of Metropolitan Los Angeles, SC2 launched the Urban Policy Seminars in the fall of 2001. This yearlong seminars series will debate alternative solutions to problems affecting the future of Southern California in the areas of sustainability, governance, economic development, education, housing, infrastructure, safety, immigration and race relations, and civic engagement.

Antonio Villaraigosa, SC2 Distinguished Visiting Fellow and Speaker Emeritus of the California State Assembly, and Jennifer Wolch, Co-director of the USC Sustainable Cities Program will moderate the seminars. The Urban Policy Seminars will shape the production and publication of SC2’s Atlas of Southern California, focused on an innovative, non-partisan agenda for urban policy and research.

The Urban Policy Seminars are Co-sponsored by the USC Sustainable Cities Program and the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate.

Remarks by Cardinal Roger Mahony

Read remarks by Cardinal Roger Mahony on Sprawl Hits the Wall