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Rebuilding Photos from Pacific Palisades.
After the catastrophic fires in January 2025 that burned down over 6,500 structures in Pacific Palisades (and over 9,400 in the Eaton Fire), I restrained my photographic urges and did not run to shoot images of someone else’s loss. Today, I reasoned that photographing the ongoing rebuilding in the Palisades was not immoral or exploitative,…
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SB 79 and Our Hood
SB 79 is a new law, recently approved by Governor Newsom, to allow the state to overrule local zoning laws and permit the construction of multi-family housing on lots which are zoned for single family housing when these properties are within a half or quarter mile of a bus or light rail stop. In Los Angeles, the…
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Turin Style Architecture in Van Nuys.
Much of commercial Van Nuys is in the worst condition of its 115-year-old history. There are empty stores, enormous parking lots with no cars, and trash camping everywhere.
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Navigating Public Space in Marina Del Rey.
In the 1960s, the swamps of south Venice became a multi-million dollar building project that culminated in what we now call Marina Del Rey. Pleasure boats, yacht clubs, nautical facilities, circular high rises with balconies overlooking the harbor, landscaped roadways with palm trees, office buildings, pharmacies, tennis courts, a hospital, a fire station, a library;…
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Who Can Imagine This?
To live in Los Angeles right now is to inhabit a mental asylum where all officials, from the police, courts, and local government, all deny that they have any legal control over the removal of lethally destructive vagrants from public property. They are powerless, simply without any authority, to stop what any cop on the…
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Valley Plaza Declared a Nuisance.
Anyone driving past the ugliness and waste that is Valley Plaza has never failed to notice how forlorn it is.
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