Cities are never finished.

Urban planning, technology, and musings from Los Angeles.

I'm an urban planner based in Los Angeles. This website is a home for my professional experience, ongoing projects, independent experiments, and occasional thoughts about how cities work—and how they might change.

Projects

A collection of professional experience, independent research, and ongoing experiments.

Urban Planning

Selected experience in permitting, entitlements, land use, and development approvals. Individual projects are described in general terms to respect client and employer confidentiality.

Software & Experiments

Independent projects exploring the intersection of technology, research, and urban planning.

  • Patch: AI-assisted building history, zoning, and municipal records research engine converting municipal archives into validated client due-diligence deliverables.
  • Workbrain: Practice intelligence and productivity platform unifying master project lists, timekeeping, and unstructured research scratchpads into structured context.
  • Slurp: Archival intake and provenance pipeline preserving immutable transcripts, local records, and multimodal assets into canonical storage.

Blog Posts

Archived coursework and blog posts from grad school. Fight on ✌️

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Characterizing previous presentations...

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Design: photo/essay assignment

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Bike network assignment

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Patterns in topics assignment

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Curriculum Vitae

Urban planner based in Los Angeles, with experience in land use, permitting, entitlement coordination, and development approvals.

Education

Master of Planning (MPL), University of Southern California

Professional Experience

Planning and permitting coordination, including municipal agency approvals, records research, due diligence, and entitlement processes.

Research & Independent Projects

Exploring emerging applications of AI-assisted research and software development in urban planning.

Résumé

Downloadable PDF coming soon.

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Los Angeles, California • Urban Planning & Due Diligence