What can reduce air pollution, noise pollution, increase public spaces, increase local business and economic vibrancy, and make a city more social and pleasant?
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a Superblock?
It’s not quite clear what led him to visit a juvenile prison and to come up with a seemingly crazy idea of taking convicted criminals out of prison and on long trail rides.
We spent $1.1 billion dollars, 5 years, and an infuriating amount of additional hours in traffic expanding the 405. It didn’t work. Not only did it not work, it actually slightly INCREASED travel time: “A traffic study by Seattle-based traffic analytics firm…
MOBILITY: THE DISRUPTION OUTLIER In our previous post, we argued how lightweight electric vehicles such as e-bikes, e-scooters, e-boards, and other lightweight electric vehicles were the true disruptors of mobility, not electric cars, owing to their super low cost and…
The rolling hills of grass, interrupted at times by thirsty oaks, sycamores, and often-dry creek beds called us. Surrounding these usually-brown, though sometimes green grasses of the north San Fernando Valley, the landscape was –as time passed – overcome with…
#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…
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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.
