#DISRUPTION. HYPE VS REALITY. The word disruption is tossed around like a cheap hashtag these days. Innovation, invention, and disruption all seem to be conflated and repeated ad nauseam. Let’s separate the hype from reality. Disruption is serious theory of…
EMANCIPATORY MOBILITY As is often the case, large scale historical changes often come from seemingly unrelated and surprising places. In the late 1800s, the technological advancements of a new invention was set to help revolutionize societal norms and usher in a new…
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Something magical happened on a street in Los Angeles, and no, it wasn’t on Diagon Ally at Universal Studios! While Angelinos were going about their stressful, noisy, car-centric life, one street was showcasing the magic of thinking outside the automobile….
WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO RAPIDLY AND FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORM LA INTO A WALK/BIKE/TRANSIT HAVEN? That is the question we started out with in our previous post spent that post making the case for why we should want to rapidly and fundamentally transform Los Angeles into a…
What would it take to rapidly and fundamentally transform LA into a walk/bike/transit haven? That’s the question I’ve been asking myself for a few years now. I’m a native Angelino. I love this city, it’s diversity, it’s art scene, its weather, it’s multitude of…
How bad urban design is preventing us from riding the future.
In our previous post we asked the simple question: it’s 2017, where are all the hoverboards? The fact that we don’t yet have antigravity boards makes it look like technology is what’s holding us back from moving around like it’s the future. But…
How bad urban design is preventing us from riding the future. It’s 2017 and we don’t see any of the futuristic mobility devices like hoverboards we were promised! While we don’t have the gravity-defying hoverboards of Back to the Future, would you believe that…
The entire future of LA seems to be being planned without input from those who want a more bikeable/walkable Los Angeles! Los Angeles is updating it’s General Plan for the first time in decades. OurLA2040, organized by LA’s Department of City Planning,…
