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An unconventional key to some of the features of a Los Angeles housing tract

Is anyone still buying what Sunset is selling?

A hole in the universe opened in the Valley. We tried lying on top of it.

Welcome to Sun City, cradle of American retirement.

Eviction is a feature, not a bug, of tenancy in common.

Robots take to the roads—and clog the sidewalks.

Postfire redevelopment could help long-term Altadena residents regain their footing—or hasten their exit.

The most decisive year in LA’s modern history is around the corner. Will the city meet the moment?

The perils of park conservancies

Minecraft yearns for an eschatology that could give the metaverse meaning.

The dark side of constant illumination

The renovated home of the Frick Collection gives you up, lets you down.

Can architecture be remade in venture capital’s image?

New York’s landmarks legislation is more invested in preserving a particular image of the city than the possibility of life within it.

My longing for LOMEX occupies a kind of double counterfactual—what if, but what if not in that way—not wholly dissimilar from Rudolph’s own.

Infested and loving it in New York City