Los Angeles Design Collective
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
  Hollywood: SL

Some enteprising Second Life citizen has boiled down the Hollywood experience with tour book efficiency, complete with Hollywood Bowl, Grauman's, and sign. And it's easier to see!
 
Friday, August 04, 2006
  Yucca Corridor
The gallery at Lost and Found, 6314 Yucca St.
90028 (sorry, no website), has a very promising show up, which accents the need for a solid vision of the Yucca corridor.
 
Thursday, August 03, 2006
  The Plan

I was able to grab this morsel of Famima global conquest before the overlords of well designed and convenient thought better of their web design.
 
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
  Van Nuys

Do I need to say anything?
 
  Ambassador Hotel (sniff)

The copy read, "An artist's sketch of the site plan of Phase 2 of a development idea for the Ambassador Hotel property on July 10, 1957, showing a deck over the lobby level and three office buildings on the property, along with a merchandise mart. The hotel itself has also been modified. Daniel, Mann, Johnson and Mendenhall are the architects and engineers."
 
  Famima!
Famima (USA) rolled out their new website yesterday, with plenty of frills and even a coupon. Gone is the corporate manifesto and global domination map, but maybe I grabbed it before they thought better...
 


Vitals
Population, City of Los Angeles: 3,957,875 (2005), Annual Growth Rate: 1.13% (2005), Service Miles, MTA: 1,433, Bus Stops: 18,500, Total Monthly Boardings, MTA: 34,775,877 (June 2006), Regional Population: 9,937,739 (2005), Regional Homeless: 91,000 (2005), Licensed Taxis: 2300
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Population, City of Tokyo: 12,544,205 (2005), Annual Growth Rate: .7% (2005), Total Annual Boardings, East Japan Railways: 3,117,237 (2004), Estimated Homeless in Tokyo: 4000-5000 Further information (available in Excel format!)

Population, City of New York: 8,008,278 (2002), Annual Growth Rate: . % (2005), Service Miles, MTA: 1,871, Annual Ridership: 740 million, Subway stations: 468, Annual Ridership, Subway: 1.4 billion, Licensed Taxis: 12,778, Regional Population: 11,685,650 (2001), Regional Homeless: 48,155 (2005), New York City Shelters: 31,961

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Action Point: California High Speed Rail - Mass transit and decreasing the dependence on oil are key to our future, not to mention Japan, France, and now China mocks us from their own...

California State Senate: Find your rep and write!
California State Assembly: Find your rep and write!
California Governor: Tell him to stop delaying the bill!
US Senator Barbara Boxer: Email's as good as a letter!
US Senator Diane Feinstein: Email's as good as a letter!
US Congress: Find your rep and write!
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Futurism: Gizmodo Inhabitat, Underwater living, Tunnelix

Design: Drawn, Viviane, Los Angeles Design Collective, Jean Snow, illustrationclass, Individual Artists: kozyndan, __,

Urbanism: California Urban History, SF Cityscape,

Los Angeles: ロス:ロスの初会 , MTA , Los Angeles Public Library, Nocturne, KPCC, Chinatown Online, MOCA, LAPD http://www.laalmanac.com/
Hollywood: Hollywood Business District, Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, Famima, Scooby’s, Historic Photos of Hollywood Hollywood bars: Tiny’s, Tiny’s, Scorpion, Geisha House, Bella, Les Deux, Hollywood Living: The Hollywood, Cosmo Lofts, Hillview Apartments, Hollywood/Vine,
Little Tokyo: Japanese Community group, Marukai Stores, KSCI TV Station, Miyako Hotel, Cafe 5,
Izakaya LA: Miro, Haru --- tba
Blogs: LA Brain Terrain, Winters, Curbed LA,
New Projects: 8th & Olive, Skyscraper.com Forum, 8th & Olive,

Metropolisia
Mid Tokyo, Cyburbia, Japan Study, Congress For New Urbanism, urbansimulation, Skyscraper, _, A View On Cities

News
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Education
CSULA, CSU, UCLA , UCLA Extension, USC, CCLA, PCC, SMCC,

Language
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German: Geothe Institute
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