“If we don’t stand up and take care of our residential neighborhoods, we’re fiddling while Rome burns.” — Shelley Wagers A twenty-year resident of the historic Beverly Grove neighborhood of Los Angeles, Shelley Wagers worked for a decade with neighbors, the Beverly Wilshire Homes Association, and City Councilmember Paul Koretz to protect their community from […]

Los Angeles is entering a new phase of growth and physical transformation, as a postwar landscape defined largely by open space and low-rise buildings gives way to the demand for density. Few large cities can lay claim to L.A.’s recent investment in public transit infrastructure and expansion. Los Angeles is changing at a rapid pace, […]