Month: July 2003

In Boston around Thanksgiving? Don’t miss my talk at the MIT conference on Architecture-History-Pedagogy. See HTC at MIT [ Pedagogy Conference ]

Housing affordability is at crisis proportions in Los Angeles. Read the LA Times article: Professionals at Home in Subsidized Housing

Issue 5 of PRAXIS: journal of writing + building, containing my article Los Angeles at the Limits. Reflexive Practice in a Late Capitalist city, is out, and is available in Santa Monica’s Hennessey & Ingalls. The issue theme is Architecture after Capitalism.

The New York Times carries an article on the intractability of Los Angeles’s Skid Row: In Los Angeles, Skid Row Resists an Upgrade

Is Los Angeles’s recent success in controlling pollution going to be its undoing as the population rises? See the LA Times article Smog Woes Back on Horizon

Reuters reports that the hinterlands are becoming wired. See Rural Internet No Longer So Off the Grid

The last month has been a little quiet, but two items start postings for July: First, audc‘s preliminary research on Quartzsite, Arizona appears at polar inertia. Also, the New York Times carries a story about varying levels of security in office buildings. Read: Different Cities, Different Security for Buildings