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Lead Author of the 1961 "Davis Core Area Plan" Dies
In the early 1960s, Lawrence Livingston and his firm devised a plan for the high-rise rebuilding of central Davis that was embraced by Davisites but then rejected in the wake of the "revolution of '72." To his credit, Mr. Livingston later "saw the light" and renounced his own early work such as done in Davis in a famous essay published in 1981 titled "Confessions of a Planner."
Davis Enterprise, January 12, 1961
He was born in 1918 and died in 2007. A copy of his obituary
published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Friday, December 14, 2007 is
posted in File 1.2.7, to the left on this site. To download it, click
here
Obituary of Lawrence Livington Jr, 1918-2007, lead
author of the Davis "Core Area Plan," 1961
For more information on Mr. Livingston and his essay, see John
Lofland, Davis City Planning, 1925-2005 at http://www.davishistoricalsociety.org/ondh/1-3-the-grisly-history-planning-zoning-in-the-on