Scholarship

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

Teaching

I am currently a lecturer at USC’s Sol Price School of Public Policy where I teach classes on planning and urban design. Recent courses have included Planning Theory, one of the department’s large introductory classes, and a graduate seminar on the Theory and Practice of Public Space. In fall 2017, I will be teaching the…

Blogging

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…