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I can’t disentangle dingbat apartments from the memories of the years I have spent in Los Angeles.
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In Los Angeles, the fantasy and the reality of the movies live side by side.
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At Hollywood Forever, the California lifestyle may be dead and buried.
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Disney’s desert expansion brings magical thinking to the Coachella Valley.
As a place shaped by mass media from above and below, Los Angeles begs for criticism composed of the very same stuff.
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The garden is a livewire biology of gossip, a thing heard through—but also is itself—a grapevine.
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On a quiet Corona street, a jazz center, a house museum, and a domestic revolution
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The new World Trade Center was art-less. And then the giant marble cube arrived.
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On the avant-garde roots of Saudi Arabia’s improbable linear city
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The imminent destruction of a postmodern gem should inspire reflection on those dwindling resources: time and care.
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As New Yorkers look to the past, present, and future of social housing, we find more questions than answers.
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Any future for Penn Station must make use (and reuse) of its past.
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The city’s planned deprivation of public toilets is the original hostile architecture.
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