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An interview with California's unofficial state historian, exploring Starr's rationale for his work, along with his understanding of the nature of California values, and what it means to be a Californian. From here to Starr's recent book, Continental Ambitions, and the many figures and features that have influenced Starr's understanding of California, this interview moves forward in Starr's characteristic polymathic style, covering encyclopedic terrain. Additionally, it explores the role that religion and especially Roman Catholicism have played in California's narrative, and in Starr's own understanding of California and its place in the world.

Chronicler of the California dark side and LA's underbelly, proclaiming a troubling, menacing reality beneath the bright and sunny facade, Mike Davis is one of California's most significant contemporary writers. His most controversial books led critics to label him anything from a left-wing lunatic to a prophet of gloom and peddler of "the pornography of despair." Yet much of his personal story and evolution are intimately touched by his experience and close reading of deeply California realities: life as part of the working class, the struggle for better working conditions, and a genuine connection to the difficulties here. His most well known books, City of Quartz and The Ecology of Fear are unsparing in their assessments of those difficulties. He invited architectural educator and Director of UCLA's cityLAB, Dana Cuff, and Dean of UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design, Jennifer Wolch, into his San Diego home to discuss his career, his writings, and his erstwhile and ongoing efforts to understand Los Angeles.

In this extended interview, Peter Kareiva, the former chief scientist at The Nature Conservancy and new head of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, talks about the connections between conservation science and cities. Among other topics, Kareiva discusses the importance of communications and creating shared values to help the public understand the urgency and potential of conservation and science.

Lauren Bon is a transformative figure. Through her work with the Metabolic Studio and as a trustee of the Annenberg Foundation, she examines a handful of enormous and intersecting questions about Los Angeles, the American West, the way we think about landscapes, our water and where it comes from, what we owe the land and communities, and our moral, economic, and political relationships. In this interview she discusses her work, including recent and forthcoming projects such as Not A Cornfield, 100 Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct, and Bending the River Back into the City—the waterwheel she plans to build for a spur of the Los Angeles River that will sit adjacent to her studio on the edge of Los Angeles's Chinatown.

An interview with Alex Steffen, a futurist and native Californian. Steffen, a self-described optimist, is nevertheless deeply worried about the inertia he has found in his home state. The power of the past—which, it turns out, has much to do with the California dream—weighs on the present, preventing the changes needed to ensure that the California dream continues to evolve. The irony is that how we think about the future is a big part of the problem.

In recent decades our country has been acquiring a certain global touch that has allowed it to grow and expand economically, however, it is not quite right when we look back and observe that growth has also brought with it patterns of "modern countries" that distort realities and that far from contributing to the strengthening of families, the integral education of children and the climate of social respect, generate confusion between budgets essential for social welfare, such as biology and culture, respect and discrimination; these patterns are included in what we will call "Gender Approach", socially extended thinking that currently aims to impose itself. Through a radical conception of the term gender, which seeks the antagonism between sex and gender to nullify the presence of the biological, personal and family visa data. ; En las últimas décadas nuestro país ha ido adquiriendo cierto roce global que le ha permitido crecer y expandirse económicamente, sin embargo, no resulta del todo bien cuando retrocedemos la mirada y observamos que ese crecimiento ha traído consigo también patrones de "países modernos" que distorsionan realidades y que lejos de contribuir al fortalecimiento de las familias, a la educación integral de la niñez y al clima de respeto social, generan confusión entre presupuestos esenciales para el bienestar social, como biología y cultura, respeto y discriminación; esos patrones se engloban en lo que denominaremos Enfoque de Género, pensamiento socialmente extendido que en la actualidad pretende imponerse. A través de una concepción radical del término género, que busca el antagonismo entre sexo y género para anular la presencia del dato biológico de la vista social, personal y familiar.