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Lost L.A.
How Baxter Became One of L.A.’s Steepest Streets
Post date:With its 32 percent grade, how did Baxter Street ever get built?
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Lost L.A.
The Lost Plan to Honor L.A.'s Mexican and American Past
Post date:Surveyors once named L.A. boulevards after American presidents and governors of the Mexican California.
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LA City
Agenda
For Long Lasting L.A. Streets, Revamping Utility Street Cuts Sought
Post date:Too often, streets in Los Angeles are newly paved only to be sliced into so that work can be performed under them. That weakens the road's surface and the life of the street is shortened.
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A Los Angeles Primer
History & Society
A Los Angeles Primer: Pico Boulevard
Post date:In the early 1980s, a young Jonathan Gold decided to eat at every restaurant on Pico Boulevard. He never completed this impossible task (though things worked out for him anyway), but what does the now-famous food critic's attempted "map of the senses" ...
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streets
Lost L.A.
When L.A.'s Most Famous Streets Were Dirt Roads
Post date:Historical photos reveal the humble origins of famous L.A. roadways like Sunset Blvd and PCH.
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Northeast Los Angeles
Northeast L.A. Riverfront
Figueroa/Avenue 26 Intersection
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A Los Angeles Primer
History & Society
A Los Angeles Primer: Little Tokyo
Post date:The place to stock up on canned green tea, buy a genuine futon, burn an hour at the arcade, eat a heaping plateful of Hayashi rice, or gaze upon the finest men's style magazines: Little Tokyo remains all these, but does it, strictly speaking, remain Ja...
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commentary
SoCal Focus
L.A. Is Unsafe for Walkers. But How Unsafe?
Post date:By some measures, L.A.'s streets are among the most dangerous in the nation for pedestrians.
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commentary
SoCal Focus
Walkers, Riders, and Drivers Sharing 'Transportation Space'
Post date:Does urbanizing L.A. face the "Tragedy of the Commons" when users share a limited transportation resource?
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Japanese
History & Society
Azusa Street to Bronzeville: The Black History of Little Tokyo
Post date:We explore an unlikely but important area to the growth of black identity in Los Angeles - a 66-square-block area known as Little Tokyo.
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Villaraigosa
1st and Spring
Slurry In A Hurry: The Mayor's Last Minute Legacy for Streets
Post date:The cost is obligating 27 years worth of Measure R funding to a crash program that will be over in two years or less.
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SoCal Focus
Every Day is Arbor Day
Post date:Arbor Day is in April in Nebraska. It's a state holiday there. Here, everyday is Arbor Day.
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commentary
SoCal Focus
Signs and wonders
Post date:Places get to be real places by many means. Naming things is one way.
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Commentary
What's With the Bike Posters?
Post date:Meet the secretive Department of D.I.Y., the group said to be behind the sharply-designed, wheat-pasted posters throughout Los Angeles that urge caution between bicyclists and automobile drivers.
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Boston
Commentary
Get Out of Town--If You Can
Post date:The difference between L.A. and Boston is so much more than a few thousand miles--try driving around there and see, But the agony was worth the trip.