Places Worth Caring About

The images below are of grocery stores and a sporting goods store on Wilshire Boulevard in West Los Angeles and Santa Monica. The Ralphs i...

If this Nordstrom department store at Westside Pavilion mall closes in 2017 to be relocated to an expanded Westfield Century City as ...

You might not like the color. You might not like the architecture and you might not like the chain stores, ...

In a previous post I noted the longevity of this newsstand  in Westwood Village, but it looks like it has closed. Because as cool as it is,...

Or is it pocket park? Pop up pocket park? Tactical urbanism? Whatever you call it, installations like this one in downtown Los Angeles are ...

People are still figuring out what these shark teeth mean even though the sign says this is where you yield to pedestrians.  There's an...

There is an intersection in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles that was designated "Persian Square" a few years ago. Immedi...

These signs are all within the same couple of blocks in the Westwood area of Los Angeles.  They are representative of the kinds of signs...

One of the newer great public spaces in Los Angeles is Downtown's Grand Park. These are some shots from the lunch hour when I was down...

This is Westwood Boulevard where Interstate 10 passes over. How can we make this less of a dead zone and more of a community asset? I know ...

It really doesn't take much. Sometimes it's as simple as keeping the sidewalks level and planting some trees.

Or are places worth caring about better tended to because people care? The image below  is not the worst, but I'm using it as an exampl...

This is the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Westwood Boulevard.  This is what I have to cross to get to the closest grocery s...

This is a building on Main and Fifth in downtown Los Angeles. According to Brigham Yen the building is known as the Pershing Hotel an...

UPDATE: After giving it some thought I've decided that the large parking lots behind the buildings along Sherman Way need to be redevel...

This is a picture of one of many homeless encampments in the Westwood area of Los Angeles. This man was living here until recently, but the...

An LA Times piece related to something I posted previously: "Another one bites the dust". Neighbors pushing for stricter rules f...

This is the Hollywood Station of the US Post Office. Built when we had the wherewithal to build things of lasting value...

The house being demolished is a  2 bedroom,  1 bathroom home that sold late last year for $975,000.  It is not uncommon for this to happen....

It's important that sidewalks are wide enough to allow for sidewalk dining and trees without unnecessarily impeding pedestrian movement...