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EVE BACHRACH is managing editor of Boom. She has worked MARK HOGAN is a principal at OpenScope Studio, an architectural for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Curbed Los Angeles, Oxford University services firm, and a senior lecturer at California College of . Press, and the British antipoverty organization War on Want. ARIS JANIGIAN was born in Fresno. He has written poetry, JIM BENNING is the editor and cofounder of the award-winning architecture , and four novels; was a contributing writer for West, online travel and culture magazine World Hum. He has served as deputy the Sunday Magazine; and currently posts for travel editor of BBC.com, and his writing has appeared in Outside,the thenervousbreakdown.com. Washington Post,andtheLos Angeles Times. He’s working on a novel about travel, love and globalization, set against the backdrop of the CARREN JAO is a writer based in Los Angeles and Manila. She has U.S.-Mexico border. written about art, architecture, and design for publications including the Los Angeles Times, KCRW, Architectural Record, Architect’s ,and NATE BERG is a journalist covering cities, architecture, and urban Dwell.

planning. His work has been published in a wide variety of publications, Downloaded from http://online.ucpress.edu/boom/article-pdf/6/1/iii/398209/boom_2016_6_1_iii.pdf by guest on 02 October 2021 including , National Public Radio, Wired,theGuardian, COLIN MARSHALL hosts and produces the podcast Notebook and many others. on Cities and Culture and is at work on the book A Los Angeles Primer: Mastering the Stateless City. His writing has appeared in , ERIC BRIGHTWELL is a writer, mapmaker, and an explorer of Los Angeles Review of Books, and Book Forum, among others. neighborhoods. He makes hand-drawn maps of Los Angeles neighborhoods as Pendersleigh & Sons Cartography. NOE´ MONTES is a commercial and editorial photographer living in Los Angeles. DAVID BUTOW is a photojournalist based in California. His most recent work, Seeing Buddha, has appeared in the New York Times and GEOFF NICHOLSON is an English writer living in Los Angeles. National Geographic. His writings include the novels The City Under the Skin and Gravity’s Volkswagen, and works of nonfiction Walking in Ruins and The Lost Art of JON CHRISTENSEN is the editor of Boom, a longtime journalist, Walking. and adjunct assistant professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, the Department of History, and the Center for Digital KEITH SCHNEIDER is senior editor and chief correspondent Humanities at UCLA. for Circle of Blue, where he focuses on intensifying demands on water, food, and energy around the world. He is a former New York Times WENDY GILMARTIN is a writer, architect, and Los Angeles national correspondent. partner at FAR frohn&rojas, a networked architectural design and research practice. She has worked on public and private design projects including ALISSA WALKER is the urbanism editor at Gizmodo and the Grand Park in downtown Los Angeles and an artists’ retirement community 2015 recipient of the Design Advocate award from the Los Angeles at the edge of the Salton Sea. chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

ANTHEA M. HARTIG is an historian and cultural heritage BROCK WINSTEAD is a freelance writer, podcast producer, and advocate who currently works as the executive director and CEO of the recovering urban planner based in Oakland. His work has appeared California HIstorical Society and serves on the State Park and Recreation previously in Boom, Slate, KQED, and elsewhere. Commission.