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Taking to the Streets

Profiling L.A.’s most famous and infamous riots.

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The Future Is Bright in Los Angeles

The poster child for transportation trouble has changed course, turning visions of a Blade Runner-esque dystopia into a thing of the past.

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Just Don't Call Them Communes

Intentional communities are enjoying a modest rebirth, as escapes from consumer capitalism in modern utopias at a livable scale.

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Andrew Price on Reyner Banham

No one—not even Randy Newman—loves L.A. the way the architectural writer Reyner Banham does.

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Theo Schell-Lambert on Jean Baudrillard

Never a reporter, always a prescriber, the French theologian upended the notion of a "real" L.A., as if there ever was such a thing.

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Patrick James on T.C. Boyle

We can't control nature. But, with the right story, at least we can laugh at our failed efforts to preserve it.

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Geoff Manaugh on Mike Davis

On the man who excavated the details the city wished to forget.

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Julia Cosgrove on Joan Didion

Selling you out and leaving town is as L.A. as it gets.

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Mixed Messages

Walk through L.A.'s organic (and illegal) mixed-use communities.

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Make Up or Break Up?

How not splitting up the Los Angeles Unified School District has driven education reform.

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Moving South

If L.A. wants to improve its transportation, it should look south of the border - and get on the bus.

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Is Los Angeles the Most Diverse City in America?

It all depends on whom you ask—and how they measure.

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Finding Tarzan at the Sanitation Department

The Center for Land Use Interpretation and Nicola Twilley peel back the layers of living history on the streets of Los Angeles.

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Too Big to Fail

Mayoral control of schools in the nation's biggest districts.

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Nicola Twilley on Jonathan Gold

How an obsessive appetite helped a food writer make sense of a city.

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Mixing It Up in the 21st Century

GOOD asks author and architect John Kriken about the gap between dense, urban living and the American Dream.