Can a city that’s synonymous with freeways and gridlock deliver a car-free Olympic Games? Los Angeles has picked up the torch.
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City life can mean lots of pavement and habitat loss. But many bug species are hanging on, especially in neighborhoods with steady temperatures near the mountains.
Many of the book’s themes, including structural racism, inequalities and poverty are as topical now as 30 years ago.
Even in a concrete jungle like Los Angeles, wild species show up in surprising places. New research identifies the types of wildlife that best tolerate urban development.
Since the ‘trial of the century,’ the lines between news and entertainment have become increasingly blurred.
Through their media savvy, two consultants were able to make the Oscars as much about the attire as the gold statuettes.
The colorful bubble letters have attracted praise and condemnation, with taggers seeing their work as a gift to the city, while others decry it as rampant vandalism.
The Blue Jays would be well served to heed the lessons learned from losing out on signing Shohei Ohtani to make sure they don’t risk losing out on any more top players.
Small suburbs have a track record of blocking new housing. Two urban policy experts explain why that’s a problem and what metro areas could do about it.
Art can help anchor places even as they are reshaped.
The brilliance of the new Netflix TV show, ‘Beef,’ which looks at loneliness and urban life, is threatened by the controversial history of one of its supporting actors, David Choe.
The Los Angeles area has over 20,000 active, idle or abandoned oil wells. The city and county have voted to ban new ones after studies showed health problems in residents living nearby.
Bret Easton Ellis’s first novel in 13 years blurs fact and fiction, mining his youth for material. The result is Joan Didion meets Brian De Palma.
Mike Davis’s radical urban history of LA was a trailblazing book that remains startlingly relevant to those of us who live in other supersizing cities in the early 21st century.
Cities are clearing homeless encampments, sometimes violently, without providing those who live there any alternatives. Long-term solutions are needed to help people off the streets.
When September melancholy hits Simmone Howell, she escapes the cold Melbourne spring to Gavin Lambert’s Los Angeles – and his ‘tough, kooky’ adolescent fantasy figure, Daisy Clover.
Heat 2, the literary sequel to Michael Mann’s classic cops-and-robbers film, is weird. Would it stand alone as a novel? Possibly not. But reading it is an incredibly pleasurable experience.
Legendary broadcaster Red Barber took a chance on Scully when he asked him to be an announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Three years later, Scully was the voice of the World Series.
The old-fashioned Hollywood femme fatale leaps off the leopard skin rug to hijack the narrative in this lurid, avant-garde novel.
The Asian American actress rose to fame in an era when white actors in yellowface were more likely to play Asian characters than Asian ones.
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Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy, Occidental College
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Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California
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Leo S. Bing Chair in English and American Literature, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Assistant Professor of Architecture, City College of New York
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Senior Lecturer in Geology, University of Aberdeen
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Senior Lecturer in Earth System Science, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Assistant Professor, Penn State
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Professor of Sociology, University of Connecticut
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Director of Research, Florida International University
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Adjunct Assistant Professor and a founder of the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles
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Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Musicology, University of Oregon
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Department Chair and Professor of Sociology, UMass Amherst
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning & Design, Monash University
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Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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Associate Professor of Sociology and Journalism, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
