R We There Yet? Re-evaluating Los Angeles's Transit Future

“Out of service,” the driver tells me as I step on the #4 in Downtown Los Angeles.

It is nearly 3 a.m. and Broadway’s indoor swap meets, electronic stores and jewelry shops sit darkened behind me. Shadowed by the marquee of an ancient movie house my face betrays concern, perhaps even desperation. I’ve [...]

Adaptive Reuse: Parking Meters to Bike Racks

I’m in the midst of preparing some posts about the Expanding the Vision of Sustainable Mobility summit hosted this week by the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. In doing so, I’m semi-procrastinating by skimming long-ago bookmarked blog entries and Web sites I set aside for reference in my master’s project exploring the possibility [...]