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Why L.A.’s Freeways Are Symbolic Sites of Protest The freeway system displaced generations of people of color.

How Santa Monica’s pedestrian mall became too successful for its own good At the height of car culture, Santa Monica made a radical decision ...

A view of the development that would make a new home for Taix on Sunset Boulevard. Renderings courtesy of Los Angeles City Planning If you love old-timey buildings, you probably look at the Echo ...

Even the museum’s glorious 1960s vision had its detractors.

When the plague came to Los Angeles “Little Mexico,” a bustling community near Olvera Street, was leveled in the name of sanitation ...

MOCA is just one of the museums that’s sharing information digitally as Angelenos are holed up at home. Shutterstock As Angelenos hunker down to comply with city and county orders to stay home ...

In the summer of ’63, black students led protests against the South Bay’s white-only neighborhoods Thousands of demonstrators flooded Torrance—and were confronted by angry white homeowners ...

The pride of West Adams Thanks to Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co., thousands of black Californians—in a time of profound racial discrimination—were able to obtain home loans and build ...

Now up for grabs in Altadena is one of the town’s most notable landmarks, the Zane Grey Estate. Sited behind iron gates on a 1.19-acre lot west of Lake Avenue, the Mediterranean Revival-style ...

A proposal out of Sacramento to put denser housing near transit has divided Californians. But a similar program is already underway in the city of Los Angeles. It’s an incentive program called ...

If it hadn’t been for what was observed after Northridge, and the Getty’s commitment, nothing might have been fixed.