The Urban Homestead: Book Signing and Slide Show
Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen discuss their book.
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LA Streetsblog Chat with Author and Cyclist Erik Knutzen
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Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne write the blog Homegrown Evolution, chronicling their adventures as urban gardeners and farmers. Kelly and Erik recently released their first book The Urban Homestead from Process Media. Last Friday, Erik, who is also a board member of the Los Angeles County Bike Coalition, sat down with me in their garden […]
This Week In Livable Streets
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Metro committees, Metro policing, University Park Slow Jams, Costco, Metrolink, and more
What You Should Do If You See a Film Crew Blocking the Bike Lane
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(We’ve gotten a lot of complaints about bike lanes being blocked by cars/film crews/police cars/trash bins/etc. We’re proud to introduce a weekly series explaining what a cyclist should do when he sees a blocked bike lane. Today we’re discussing film crews. Next week, we’ll talk LAPD cars.) Over the past year, it seems that film […]
Hyperion Hearing: It’s Not About Bikes, It’s About Communities and People
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If you were keeping score at home, something which would be impossible because of our failed attempt at Live Streaming, it was a blowout. Nearly fifty speakers took to the podium. Four of them spoke in favor of the current design. The rest made the case for a more Livable design, lower speeds, and better […]
Streetsblog Interview with Planetizen Editor and Children’s Book Author Tim Halbur
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Last week, I had the opportunity to sit down with Tim Halbur, the managing editor of Planetizen and author of the new, hot-selling, children’s book Where Things Are, From Near To Far, which seeks to explain urban planning to children. There’s going to be a reading of the book this Sunday, January 25, at the […]
Ethan Elkind’s Railtown – How Planning, Engineering and Mostly Politics Shape L.A. Rail
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The UC Berkeley Faculty Club meeting room was packed on Tuesday evening with people who came to hear Ethan Elkind talk about his book, Railtown: The Fight for the Los Angeles Metro Rail and the Future of the City. Elkind, who holds a joint appointment as Climate Policy Associate at the UCLA and UC Berkeley […]