Suchergebnisse

An interview with writer Rebecca Solnit, about San Francisco's ongoing upheaval during the tech boom. Topics covered include tech commuter shuttles (aka Google Buses), Silicon Valley, San Francisco's history as a place where culture flourishes, and how the city is becoming an expensive bedroom community for tech workers who commute to jobs in Silicon Valley.

Boom editor Jon Christensen interviews Malcolm Margolin, who is celebrating forty years of publishing books with Heyday. Margolin discusses Heyday's origins and how the local publishing scene has changed in the intervening decades, the roundhouse model of publishing—which sees each book published as an opportunity for people to come together and build community—the stories that Californians have to tell, and the concept of "deep hanging out." The interview is illustrated with images from recent Heyday publications.

Carolyn Finney and Rue Mapp talk with Boom editor Jon Christensen about their work with people, diversity, and nature in California. They discuss the mistaken perception that African Americans are disconnected from nature, and the opportunities and challenges in putting agencies such as the National Park Service in dialogue with diverse communities.

This interview with Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne was conducted by Boom editor Jon Christensen and Dana Cuff, a professor of architecture, urban design, and urban planning, and director of cityLAB at UCLA. Hawthrone is charged with covering new developments in architecture and urban design in Los Angeles and the United States, and thinking and writing about new buildings and how they might-or might not-change the way we live. More broadly, his subject is not just buildings, but the city itself, and how we understand it and ourselves. Hawthorne calls his big project "The Third Los Angeles." Like no other critic in the land, Hawthorne has grasped the challenge of telling the story of a great city-its past, present, and future-while playing a prominent role in shaping the city's vision of itself, intellectually, creatively, and pragmatically. Hawthorne discusses the evolution of public and private space in Los Angeles, competing plans for the future of the Los Angeles River, freeways, housing, climate, and much more.