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The best view is from the escalators.

Just like Spanish conquest, this ideal requires water, walls, and exclusivity.

On the occasion of our first special issue

Same as a Honda dealership, just a half step above a 7-Eleven.

More outdoor gallery and parklets than civic monument

Everyone’s shocked how smoothly it went, given the nasty fight seven years ago over who exactly would pay for it.

How can she love a man already beloved by the world?

At Hollywood Forever, the California lifestyle may be dead and buried.

There’s plenty still unknown about the Lucas Museum, but one thing’s for sure: It’ll look good on the screen.

She abandons the toxicity of “curation” in favor of mess and chaos.

Van Nuys Government Center is a stand-in for downtown democracy flung out to the suburban hinterlands.

Disney’s desert expansion brings magical thinking to the Coachella Valley.

The organizers behind Los Angeles’s latest Olympics run seem content with standing still.

Foreboding words for a ticket stub

Opinions on YOU-ADU vary.

As a place shaped by mass media from above and below, Los Angeles begs for criticism composed of the very same stuff.