Mexican architect and writer Author of Garage Founder of Office LOG
Los Angeles, CA
Joined January 2009
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This is where most of my friends had their quinceñeras. They also all danced to Your Body is a wonderland with their fathers. At the end of Mayer’s song a church bell would ring and Papi Papi Papi chulo would be blasted. It was a ritual.
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Eyal Weizman – The Architecture of Genocide | Live in London
The acclaimed architect and investigator @weizman_eyal delivers a devastating, meticulous account of the history of Israel’s destruction of Gaza.
Mon, 11 May | 6:15pm | London & Online
Tickets: howtoacademy.com/events/eyal…
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🚁LAPD HELICOPTER AUDIT: FINDINGS
• Hourly cost: $2,916 per flight hour
• ~$50M per year (more than 14 city dept. budgets)
• 61% of time not spent on high priority crime
• Disproportionate time spent in certain communities
• ~762k gal fuel burned/yr
bit.ly/heli-audit
ALT graphic with mint green and white text on grainy dark background and white helicopter in top left corner. LAPD HELICOPTER AUDIT FINDINGS: Hourly Cost: $2,916 per flight hour, Annual Cost: ~$50 million (more than the budgets of 14 city departments), Audit Out NOW! bit.ly/heli-audit, Controller's seal and logo
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In podcast on accelerating infrastructure for Olympics, LA Metro Chief Innovation Officer Seleta Reynolds says building bus/bike lanes without extensive community engagement and consent would make them no better than planners that bulldozed homes for freeways, would be arrogant.
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Today we are gathering blankets, bedding, towels and toiletries to take to the hotel @MayorOfLA sent folks from the Culver Blvd median to yesterday because they weren't provided any. At a hotel. No blankets, towels or toiletries. Does that sound Inside Safe to you?
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SoFi Stadium was built as an indoor/outdoor stadium but the floor is entirely too slippery tonight in the rain. Multiple people are slipping and falling and having to be helped out on stretchers.
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If you wouldn't build your house like this,
why would you build your city this way?
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Full video of conflict Friday night involving Kevin De Leon.
Please ask @JTOWNACTION for permission to use. Please contact Jason Reedy’s lawyer @sh4keer if you have any questions.
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with the 2022 FIFA World Cup kicking off tomorrow, let's grade the venues based on urbanism!
first up, Lusail Stadium. horrible!
F-
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Another day without resignations.
The audacity of Cedillo, De Leon, and Martinez still staying in their seats after the President of the United States of America has called them to resign does not surprise me.
They were never about the people. They’re only about themselves. – at Los Angeles, CA
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“I’m here because I believe in the power of government to do good and to be good. We need to create the governing structures that make that happen.
We can create rules in Los Angeles that change the way in which Councilmembers operate.”
