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Category Archives: Community Plans

Glendale Plan Framework

January 22, 2018by Alan Loomis Leave a comment

We have attempted in our work in Glendale, to quote the legendary planner Edmund Bacon, “to develop design principles capable of influencing future action. We have endeavored to establish a design idea of such potency that it welds the work of individual architects designing in fragmented areas into a cohesive whole.”

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City of Glendale, Citywide Plans, Community Plans, Glendale, Work, Writings

South Glendale Community Plan

July 5, 2015by Alan Loomis 6 Comments

The South Glendale Community Plan is the second in a series of comprehensive plans for Glendale, and will address the urbanized heart of the City south of the 134 Freeway.

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City of Glendale, Citywide Plans, Community Plans, Work

North Glendale Community Plan

November 29, 2011by Alan Loomis

The North Glendale Community Plan is the official guide to the La Crescenta and Montrose areas of Glendale. It is the first of several community plans which will describe Glendale’s development policy for the various neighborhoods and commercial districts in the city.

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City of Glendale, Citywide Plans, Codes & Ordinances, Community Plans, Work

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In recognition of the 100 year (and 1 month) anniversary of the motel, some motel signs from Michigan, Tennessee, Arizona, California, Mississippi and Texas. In recognition of the 100 year (and 1 month) anniversary of the motel, some motel signs from Albuquerque, mostly on Central Ave / Rte 66. These pictures are from 25 years ago, so some of these motels and signs may not exist today. And some might have been converted into affordable housing courts, which was one of the recommendations of a Rte 66 plan I worked on almost 30 years ago. In recognition of the 100 year (and 1 month) anniversary of the motel, some motel signs from Alamogordo, Deming, Roswell, Las Cruces, Truth or Consequences and other towns in New Mexico. 1/3 Charles Moore’s contribution to the UC Irvine campus, the domestically scaled Extension Education Center, is inspired by the three chapels of San Gregorio in Rome. In fact, as Moore himself admits in the essay “The Qualities of Quality,” the triparte elevation design featuring a scalloped baroque centerpiece flanked by paired arched facades, is a near literal copy of the 17th Century Roman precedent. (As seen in the etching by Giuseppe Vasi). Approached via a set of scalloped steps and sitework, more elaborate than in Rome, the building likely felt more monumental when first built than today now that it is surrounded by the multi-story boxes of the Business School, Law Library and nearby Social Sciences Parking Structure.

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