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Planning for AuthentiCITIES

What is authenticity in a community? What is an authentic community? In a world which never stops changing, growing, evolving … how can planners take up the challenge of authenticity? Host Lisa Schweitzer talks with editors Brettany Shannon and Laura Tateof the new book Planning for AuthentiCITIESabout the challenge and how Read more…

This is How it Ends

Eva Dolan’s This is How it Endsis a thriller set in an anti-gentrification activist community in the middle of a rapidly gentrifying London. Dolan tackles the huge issue of gentrification through the story of two women engaged in the anti-gentrification movement. How do we define ourselves in places? How do Read more…

Coming in September!

LA Hastags Itself is a six-episode, limited series podcast coming in September 2016. We will hear from various Angeleno private and public organizations leading the trend of using digital media for urban and social development. Digital media are neither just “useful” nor peculiar to the sharing and cultural economies, but Read more…

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