D.J. Waldie
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.
The disconnect between transit and density is painfully obvious.
Transit riders will take whatever is given them, whenever it’s given.
The moral dilemma of city planning
Usher saw the city as something more than square footage.
The game has never had any place at the board for you. It’s always been the machine’s game.
In books. Because of books. Naturally.
Back at the beginning of this, I remarked a couple of times about falling in love. Falling in love with Los Angeles.
It is our failure of imagination that renders Los Angles a city of regrets.
I grew up among Aviation Okies and their sons and daughters.
I’m transit dependent. Because of that, I’m not (to myself, at least) an authentic southern Californian.
The definition of spawl now depends (looking back) on what you define as L.A.
We learned at the movies to distrust L.A.'s light.