It’s hard to sum up all of the things that interest me: urban history, urban planning, public space, heritage conservation, cultural landscapes… If pressed, I would say that I write about the visual practices of urban planners and the consequences of those practices for cities and the people who live in them. This seems to…

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I am currently an adjunct associate professor at USC’s Sol Price School of Public Policy and the School of Architecture where I teach classes on planning, urban design and heritage conservation. Courses include Planning Theory, a large introductory class, a graduate seminar on the Theory and Practice of Public Space and Shaping the Built Environment, the…

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Using Figueroa Street as an organizing frame, the LAvenuesProject explores the history of Los Angeles’ built environment. Recent posts have talked about a relatively unknown silent movie studio in Highland Park, the political history of the Scholl Canyon Landfill and a surviving  Van De Kamp’s bakery building in South LA. Besides my own blog, I have…

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