The Los Angeles government has developed a bad habit of taking private property for the good of the public, and not paying for it. This is a very old problem that the Fifth Amendment to the U.S.

This photo by Julius Shulman became a symbol of Los Angeles. © J. Paul Getty Trust / Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles Sixty-five years after this mid-century ...

But it speaks to just how close to nature this place is.” This is life at Village Green, a car-free oasis of 629 homes in ...