A Review of Streetfight by Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomonow
Janette Sadik-Khan's new book Streetfight comes out next Tuesday March 8. Sadik-Khan will be in L.A. speaking and signing books on March 16 at the Hammer Museum and March 17 at Gensler in downtown Los Angeles. Congratulations to Erik Griswold who won Streetfight during SBLA's pledge drive last week, and to Luke Klipp who won Gabe Klein's Start-Up City.
March 4, 2016
Not Your Parents’ LADOT
One of the nice things about shopping for food and eating in France is that the quality is assured by rigorous government regulation. While some boulangeries are better than others, in general, consumers can find a good quality baguette in any bakery.
March 20, 2015
Measure J and the future of [transit in] L.A.
(This is the third of four op/eds on Measure J that Streetsblog will publish this week. Monday, Gloria Ohland of Move L.A. made the case for Measure J, yesterday the BRU made their case for a no vote. – DN)
October 31, 2012
Los Angeles and the Case for Transit Oriented Development: Building and Funding TOD
This is the third part of a three part series on Transit Oriented Development written by Joel Epstein. Part I ran on Wednesday and introduced the series and looked at Metro's current role. Part II ran yesterday and focused on the TOD history of L.A. since construction of the Red Line. The series was originally assigned to Joel when he wrote for Metro's website, The Source. There was no effort from Metro to "place" the story with Streetsblog.
May 25, 2012
Los Angeles and the Case for Transit Oriented Development: TOD Since the Red Line
This is the second in a three-part series on Transit Oriented Development and Los Angeles by Joel Epstein. Yesterday's piece was an introduction and a look at Metro’s role. Today, Epstein looks at the history of TOD on the Red Line. Tomorrow, he examines what L.A. has to do to embrace true Transit Oriented Development. You don't have to read the pieces in order, but it makes for a more complete view.
May 24, 2012
Los Angeles and the Case for Transit-Oriented Development (Part 1 of 3)
This is the first in a three-part series on Transit Oriented Development and Los Angeles. Today's piece is an introduction and a look at Metro's role. Tomorrow looks at the history of TOD on the Red Line. Friday examines what L.A. has to do to embrace true Transit Oriented Development.
May 23, 2012
A Food Desert By Any Other Name
What is the real story behind food deserts? New research from the Public Policy Institute of California comes to the same conclusion that researchers from the California Center for Public Health Advocacy came to five years ago. I guess the confirmation of these findings is cause for a low calorie celebration. Or perhaps a victory lap around the Staples Center, (LA’s official monument to Coca Cola).
March 27, 2012
Shilling for the Soda Industry
You get what you pay for. Or at least that is what the soda industry thought when it hired a University of Alabama "scientist" to do its bidding, questioning the incontrovertible link between soda and obesity. I thought being a scientist meant abiding by an ethical code to interpret research data objectively and free of bias.
September 12, 2011
The Food Desert & The Real Thing
What’s a food desert? When I hear the term I think of old Road Runner cartoons or a barren landscape of rocks and sun with a Joshua tree or cactus off in the distance. It’s not the landscape many Angelenos are currently seeing of green hills, lush full trees and wildflowers blooming after a winter that finally freed the state of its drought designation.
May 12, 2011