Monika Heidi Duque, of Rosewood STEM Magnet, Urban Planning and Urban Design, was named a finalist in the 2026 California ...

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Grand Avenue in Downtown L.A. should be one of the great streets in the world. Instead, it’s got a bunch of starchitect ...

We can all visualize what a time machine might look like — blinking lights and buzzing sounds and a door that glows come to mind — but perhaps there are other real-world routes, beyond blinking and ...

A freeway in the middle of the ocean, thousands of acres of interconnected parks, LAX under a glass dome, and Disneyland: Burbank. These are just a few of the projects that would have changed the ...

Designers: Alex San Diego, Mia Lehrer and Eden Ferry at Studio-MLA’s Boyle Heights office. (Photo by Thomas Wasper) Founded downtown in 1997, Studio-MLA temporarily resided in Koreatown before ...

The partners of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) announced they are launching a new design studio as part of their West Coast practice. Leading the new studio are three former SOM architects: ...

Volunteers tend to an insect trap in Los Angeles. Deniz Durmus, courtesy of the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County, CC BY-SA The project used data from the museum’s BioSCAN project, where ...

A new study argues that human culture — including religion, politics and war — influences how wildlife evolves in cities. In Los Angeles, factors such as policing, zoning, and local values and ...

Assistant Professor of Biology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Laura Melissa Guzman receives funding from Conservation, Food, and Health Foundation. Charles Lehnen is receiving ...