... own understanding of California and its place in the world. © 2016 by The Regents of the University of California 2016 Los Angeles Pope Francis Catholicism California values Californian kevin starr A Boom Interview Editor s note: Narrator of the desires that gave California rise...

...Lynell George Moving back and forth from Los Angeles to San Francisco, this essay travels back in time to an imported experience of African American culture that came to the West Coast. Part of a familial culture, which converged with this place amidst the streets, and trees, and family heirlooms...

...Maricela Becerra; Lucy Seena K. Lin; Gus Wendel On 26 September 2014, forty-three students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College disappeared from Iguala, a city in the state of Guerrero, Mexico. Two students’ bodies have been recovered, while forty-one students remain missing. In Los Angeles...

... that aims to co-create with community organizations by combining scholarly, artistic, and activist practices with one another. These images provide glimpses from a near future that has begun to dismantle the barriers within and between Los Angeles and Mexico City, building bridges instead of walls. © 2016...

... for urban humanists based in Los Angeles. © 2016 by The Regents of the University of California 2016 Oakland Los Angeles the North creative writing LA literature Japanese Americans Japanese churches spatiality time Urban Humanities Anime Wong Tropic of Orange karen tei yamashita...

..., Jennifer Wolch, into his San Diego home to discuss his career, his writings, and his erstwhile and ongoing efforts to understand Los Angeles. © 2016 by The Regents of the University of California 2016 mike davis A Boom Interview In conversation with Jennifer Wolch and Dana Cuff E ditor s Note...

... out through a comparative study of Los Angeles and Mexico City. © 2016 by The Regents of the University of California 2016 comparative studies cities urban imaginaries transnational urban studies regionalism Los Angeles Mexico City dana cuff and anastasia loukaitou-sideris Neither...

... those houses as part of what holds Los Angeles and other Californian cities back from classically urban levels of density and functionality. He argues that the “house culture” instilled by the Case Study houses and other single-use, single-family-house-oriented forms of residential architecture have...

...Carren Jao There are acres and acres of unused land in cities, sitting derelict because of tax reasons or lack of funds. This article looks at the many initiatives that seek to add vitality to urban living by transforming vacant lots within the greater Los Angeles area. © 2016 by The Regents...

... a problem of stagnating wages, but also stagnating housing: we are not building enough homes. A recent report from the Goldhirsh Foundation noted that Los Angeles, for example, will need a minimum of 500,000 additional units over the next thirty-five years to meet growing housing demands. In April of 2015...

... congregations in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Los Feliz yields a complex—and dynamic—picture of the potential future of American religion. Cartography: Beau MacDonald, University of Southern California Spatial Sciences Institute, 2015. Data: USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, USGS, Los Angeles County...

... the importance of communications and creating shared values to help the public understand the urgency and potential of conservation and science. © 2015 by the Regents of the University of California 2015 University of California Los Angeles Institute of the Environment and Sustainability Los Angeles...

...Adam Rogers The city of Los Angeles is converting its streetlights from orange-gold sodium vapor technology to cold, white light-emitting diodes. It’s a transition that will change the color of the city at night, in a place with a long history of experimentation with artificial lighting technology...

...Lauren Bon Lauren Bon is a transformative figure. Through her work with the Metabolic Studio and as a trustee of the Annenberg Foundation, she examines a handful of enormous and intersecting questions about Los Angeles, the American West, the way we think about landscapes, our water and where...

..., this time visual ones. Her project was to understand how often-used—but often poorly understood—terms like redlining, white flight, outmigration, gentrification, nostalgia, post-riots had shaped the look of Los Angeles landscapes. Her photography shows that some change happens so imperceptibly that we don’t...

...Wendy Cheng While Los Angeles’s San Gabriel Valley is best known for being the “first suburban Chinatown,” it is actually a lively, multiethnic, and multiracial community with a complex past, and an emerging arts scene that celebrates that complexity. Today, the “SGV” constitutes the largest...

...Colin Marshall The author, a resident of Los Angeles's Koreatown, travels to Seoul in order to compare the Korean culture where he lives with the culture of South Korea's capital. There he finds that, while he has spent years in Koreatown dreaming of the Korea he would one day experience, South...

...Robert Gottlieb The relationship between China and Los Angeles has been transformed over the past thirty years through the enormous expansion of global trade and imported products made in China. Products arrive in the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and are then transported by truck and rail...

... Oakland Los Angeles Bay Area David Butow redux pictures mood moody public spaces donut shop david butow After Hours Exploring California in the dark T here s something about walking the streets in the quiet stillness of night.When darkness falls and businesses shut down, the strange colors...

... the highway are the focus of this long-term project. © 2014 by the Regents of the University of California 2014 Los Angeles LA photography commuting vanpool I-10 Highway 60 Southern California stan paul On the Road Again M y journey to work begins in the dark. I am out the door at 4:30 A.M...