The New Yorker: Can Sustainable Suburbs Save Southern California?
Construction is currently under way at FivePoint Valencia, a development of twenty-one thousand homes in the Santa Clara River Valley, following decades of legal conflicts with environmental groups.
The site of the Centennial housing development, a planned mixed-use community of more than nineteen thousand homes and ten million square feet of commercial space.
A housing unit under construction at FivePoint Valencia, in Santa Clarita.
Tesla chargers at the Tejon Ranch Commerce Center, a massive warehouse complex and outlet mall.
Some of the area’s flora. Here, a non-native tumbleweed.
California poppies.
Valley bladderpod.
Rubber rabbitbrush.
Bristly fiddleneck.
A Valley oak.
A portion of the California Aqueduct off the road leading to Tejon Ranch’s cement factory.
Cattle roam next to the stretch of the California Aqueduct in Tejon Ranch’s restricted area.
A transplanted tree at the FivePoint Valencia housing development, with the Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park visible in the distance.