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City Rising
City Rising
How One Organization Is Providing Small Business Owners the Help They Need
Post date:Since 2013, Leadership for Urban Renewal Network has created sustainable communities through promoting and building places that meet the diverse needs of residents.
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City Rising
City Rising
Educate, Agitate and Organize: Lessons on Community Organizing in Latinx Communities
Post date:As a Boyle Heights native, Alvaro Huerta recollects the legacy of community organizing within the Chicana/o-Latina/o communities and gives advice on how to sustain that activism.
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wild west
Lost L.A.
Witness to a Hanging: California's Haunted Trees
Post date:When a man dies hanging from a tree, is that tree an accessory to the act or a witness? The multiple second lives of the frontier "hang tree" reveal something unsettling about the Golden State.
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City Rising
City Rising
The Foreclosure Crisis and Its Impact on Today's Housing Market
Post date:Nearly a decade later, public policy professionals and academics have worked to unravel the complex factors that led to the 2008 housing crisis and why minorities and women proved particularly vulnerable.
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wall street
City Rising
Who Benefits from Gentrification?
Post date:Gentrification is not a force of nature, an inevitable economic trend or a preordained social phenomenon. It is the result of decisions made by real people who run institutions, seek to make profits, and are motivated by greed and power.
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City Rising
City Rising
Gentrification Is About Power: What’s Community Got to Do with It?
Post date:Despite the promises of revitalization and free market exchange for neighborhoods, gentrification is an invading force that has developed out of a history of discriminatory laws and practices in the United States.
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Climate Change LA
Climate Change L.A.
Climate Resolve Q&A: Riley Duren
Post date:Climate Resolve Q&A with Riley Duren of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory about the Megacities Carbon Project and keeping Earth healthy.
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community arts
Artbound
A Guide to Current:LA Water, the Biennial Bringing Art to 16 Locations Across the City
Post date:This summer, Los Angeles’ riverbanks and water-related sites will blossom to life despite the drought. Current:LA Water, a citywide public art biennial, is seeking to uncover the complexities inherent in water on urban life.
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film and media arts
Artbound
Big (Beautiful) Data: The Media Architecture of Refik Anadol
Post date:Can data be beautiful? Can it tell stories? Media artist Refik Anadol thinks so, and his artworks are a testament to the delights of data.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Keeping Time: John Reynolds Invokes Lost Los Angeles in Landscapes and Song
Post date:Musician and painter John Reynolds is a fifth-generation Californian inspired by 20th century architecture and song. For decades, his work has been mining a vivid past, as a way to both mark time and celebrate place.
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citizen science
Redefine
Scooping Scat for Science
Post date:Citizen scientists collect coyote scat to find out more about the critters' lives in Los Angeles. Step one: learn how to tell it from dog poop.
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architecture
Artbound
What is the Third Los Angeles?
Post date:What is the Third Los Angeles? It’s a way of describing the new civic identity that Los Angeles is working, and often struggling, to establish.
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Alta California
Lost L.A.
This 1835 Decree Made the Pueblo of Los Angeles a Ciudad – And California's Capital
Post date:Los Angeles officially became the territorial capital of Alta California in 1835.
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Performance
Artbound
Playwright Larissa FastHorse on the Urban Indian Experience
Post date:Native American playwright Larissa FastHorse discusses her upcoming production with Cornerstone Theater Company, "Urban Rez."
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Music
Artbound
Anthems to Empower: The Double Life of Cassandra Violet
Post date:Musician Cassandra Violet is gaining attention for her Laurel Canyon-inspired folk-meets-pop.
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Architecture and Design
Artbound
Perry Cardoza's Land Art Project Breaks Ground in the Owens Valley
Post date:A large scale landscape art project on Owens Lake is scheduled to open this spring.
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California History
Travel
Chasing down L.A.'s Rancho Era Past
Post date:Here's where you can catch a glimpse of L.A. when it was still part of Mexico.
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History
Lost L.A.
New History Series 'Lost LA' Premieres on KCET
Post date:"Lost LA" premieres Wednesday, January 27 at 8:30 p.m. on KCET.
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excursions
Travel
Discover L.A.'s Nomadic Buildings
Post date:Here are five places to find historic structures that have been on the move.
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literature
Artbound
Woody Guthrie and Skid Row in Los Angeles
Post date:Woody Guthrie's songs and writings express an honest understanding of the Skid Row population. During his years in Los Angeles from 1937 to 1941 he spent a lot of time in the L.A. community.