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Book Review: The Art of Urban Sketching
February 19, 2013 By
Have you ever heard of “urban sketching”? Essentially, it is the art of freehand drawing on location at cities where[Read More...]
Los Angeles as a Museums Capital: Part II
January 31, 2013 By
Los Angeles is indeed a museums capital. As I shared in a previous article, there are hundreds of museums and[Read More...]
Los Angeles as a Museums Capital
November 28, 2012 By
Have you ever considered Los Angeles to be a cultural capital? Or do you think that our city is still[Read More...]
Peddocks Island: A Study of Public Art and Community
November 25, 2012 By
At the end of this past summer I made a trip to Peddocks Island in the Boston Harbor. The island[Read More...]
New Downtown San Diego Arts & Entertainment District Proposed
November 18, 2012 By
An arts & entertainment district is being proposed for San Diego’s downtown for the area North of Broadway, South of[Read More...]
Canstruction: Promoting Design and Fighting Hunger
November 15, 2012 By
While visiting FIGat7th in Downtown Los Angeles over the weekend, I noticed that a giant shoe sculpture made entirely of canned food[Read More...]
Newcastle Mural Advertisement on 6th Ave
November 9, 2012 By
Mural advertisements seem to be popping up on several old downtown San Diego buildings. So far, most of the ones[Read More...]
SD History Center receives grant to restore Depression-era paintings
November 3, 2012 By
A worthy effort. . . http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/oct/24/sd-history-center/ The San Diego History Center has received grants totaling ,000 from the Legler Benbough[Read More...]
Cities. Like Human Bodies
September 20, 2012 By
A city is not only the result of the equation that summarize an indefinite number of buildings; instead it is[Read More...]
Water Wheel to Pay Tribute to Los Angeles’ Past, Nurture Its Present
August 14, 2012 By
Los Angeles – A proposed project set for downtown Los Angeles will double as a way to irrigate a park[Read More...]
“Trend: La Tendenza” – Italian Architecture 1965-1985
August 2, 2012 By
Paris – In the period right after WWII, in Italy a new context of crisis opens up and leads to[Read More...]
Land Art: A Planner’s Perspective
July 18, 2012 By
As a planner, I have an interest in just about anything land-related, including any exhibit with the word “land” in[Read More...]
When invisible cities become real
July 16, 2012 By
Boston – “The ancients built Valdrada on the shores of a lake, with houses all verandas one above the other,[Read More...]
Book Review – Clog: Data Space
July 12, 2012 By
CLOG is a quarterly publication that explores, from multiple viewpoints and through a variety of means, a single subject particularly[Read More...]
Historic American Buildings Survey
July 11, 2012 By
Los Angeles – The American Institute of Architects/Los Angeles is hosting an Exhibition of photographer and architect Richard J. Levy’s[Read More...]
The Portes Ouvertes of Belleville
June 5, 2012 By
Sometimes overnight sensations take a long time. As with chanteuses, so it is with city neighborhoods. Belleville, Paris, is the[Read More...]
Creativity in Planning
April 6, 2012 By
According to the American Planning Association (APA), successful planners should have a variety of skills, one of which is “the[Read More...]
Hot Lake Springs…The Arkansas of Oregon?
April 1, 2012 By
Earlier this week, I paid a visit to an intriguing place called Hot Lake Springs, which is located in what[Read More...]
Plaza de Panama Project Forges Ahead
March 30, 2012 By
San Diego – Balboa Park is many things to many people: gathering place, cultural vortex, architectural treasure. It is not, however,[Read More...]