City of Gardens Revisited

For more than two decades, the City of Gardens ordinance has guided the production of dozens of housing projects in Pasadena. Architects, planners and Pasadena Commissioners will discuss the learned experience of this pioneering form-based code, and help us investigate its architectural intentions, consequences and implementation.

Moderator: Alan Loomis, AICP, Deputy Director for Urban Design and Mobility, City of Glendale Community Development Department

Speakers: Amanda Landry, AICP, Planner, City of Pasadena; Jesse Lattig, Preservation Director, Pasadena Heritage; Ali Barar, AIA, Managing Principal, Gonzalez Goodale Architects

2016 APA California Conference in Pasadena