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Nicole Possert - Return to Nature and Plein Air
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Explore the parallels between the new plein air movement with those of the past.
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With the proliferation of mobile phones, digital cartography has taken off as a community-building tool. Using geotags for posted photographs and status updates, people can relay valuable information about the communities they live in.
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Post and Beam has become the between home and work spot that facilitates and anchors community in the Crenshaw District.
Wedged between car parts and brick walls, Elvira grows various chiles, sarabando beans and marigolds. | Photo: Vickie Vertiz
More people are turning to self-provisioning in ways they had not considered before, signaling a need to reconnect with this part of our lives
The 4th wave of migrants in the 70's and early 80's saw a complete transformation of L.A.'s Chinatown.
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Ironically, the deterioration and abandonment of Venice in he 1950s cultivated the perfect environment for artists, poets and dissidents to retreat from the promised dreams of post-war America and create a counter-cultural haven for years to come.
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As the population of carp grows in the Los Angeles River, urban fly fishing in Glendale Narrows and Elysian Valley is becoming more popuplar.
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Departures Abbot Kinney Boulevard Once upon a time, Venice's trendy commercial drag was a mom-and-pop dotted boulevard named Washington.Watch
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Built in less than three decades' time, between 1909-1938, the twenty-seven historic bridges span the entirety of the Los Angeles River from the San Bernadino Valley down to Long Beach and represent a significant time period for Los Angeles.
Current Sixth Street VIaduct has ''concrete cancer''
Nearly a mile in length and connecting downtown L.A. to Boyle Heights, the Sixth Street Viaduct was the last and arguably grandest of the river bridges.
A slideshow with captions illustrating the history of the Los Angles River prior to its channelization.
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