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D.J. Waldie

D. J. Waldie (2017)

D. J. Waldie is the author of "Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir" and "Where We Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles," among other books about the social history of Southern California. He is a contributing editor for the Los Angeles Times.

D. J. Waldie (2017)
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Adobe Los Angeles, ca 1860: The only brick structure is the water tank in the center of the plaza.
Concrete Dreams: Desire and Regret on the Freeways of LA
The world began on December 30, 1940 when a caravan of more than 4,000 cars, led by the head of the California Highway Patrol, traveled north on the new Arroyo Seco Parkway to its Fair Oaks Avenue exit.
Herons and Concrete: Redefining What Nature Means on the L.A. River
Revitalizing the Los Angeles River could redefine what nature means to the city. But contending definitions of nature, re-greening, utility, and even the river must be reconciled first.
Camellias and 'Commies' in LA's Tabloid Age
There aren't many places in LA as layered as the Descanso Gardens in La Cañada-Flintridge: pre-colonial oak forest, colonial period rancho, formal garden, commercial nursery, and home to one of LA's most controversial figures.
Mirrors, Moons, and More Light in LA
Artists, writers and lovers of L.A. find inspiration in the peculiarly deceptive qualities of L.A.'s natural light.
Further Observations on 'Looking for Los Angeles'
We haven't yet learned to speak the language of the Los Angeles that is coming.
For Bus Riders, Less is More for Some and Nothing for Others
Transit dependency, like other dependencies, is a relationship of power. Dependency forms - or deforms - both user and provider. Metro is planning to change that relationship for dependent riders of its buses.
Trapped
The Tragedy and the Man That Made L.A. TV
TV really wasn't essential, that is until the evening of April 8, 1949. What viewers saw the following day changed what watching meant.
Rubble: Long Beach, 1933
Deep History Along the Newport-Inglewood Fault
History in L.A. may lie deep -- 20 miles and millions of years -- but not quietly.
westofthewest
Where the West Begins
Justice Antonin Scalia's parenthetical assumption about the exceptional irrelevance of the California scene to the broad American vista only looks peevish and trivial. It isn't.
Sphinx
Figures in a Landscape: The Sphinxes of Los Angeles
To see monumental sphinxes depends on your capacity for pareidolia - the tendency to see faces and figures in ambiguous shapes in the environment.
Hope
In L.A.'s Regime of Speed: 'Change and Velocity'
Speed and momentum are this city's medicine for its anxieties about the permanence of palm trees, sunshine, and radical self-reinvention.
1952, Docking the USS Bremerton*
Incredibly Sinking State: The Lowdown on Subsidence
California's ground subsidence is causing unknown millions in damage to the state's infrastructure. Long Beach had that sinking feeling 70 years ago.
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