Jack Kerouac’s boarding-house now co-living for creatives by Kirsten Dirksen on November 7, 2020 In 1953 Jack Kerouac stayed here for part of the spring, but when Sara McEre bought the former 19th-century boarding …
LA couple builds backyard cottage, then moves-in from main home by Kirsten Dirksen on July 19, 2020 Paul and Yuki Gasiorkiewicz bought a nondescript 1930s bungalow in LA’s Echo Park and rather than trying to convert it …
LA startup offers custom small prefabs adapted to area code by Kirsten Dirksen on June 2, 2019 In 2017, California lawmakers forced cities to relax their regulations on backyard units; Alexis Rivas and Jemuel Joseph were ready …
Zen aficionado builds LA modern home atop hill on a modest salary by Kirsten Dirksen on January 20, 2019 When Tim Tattu, a Zen Buddhist aficionado, hospice nurse, and former set decorator, bought an affordable lot in LA’s Silver …
LA coliving: a permeable intersection between social/privacy by Kirsten Dirksen on January 8, 2017 Calling it “a social network with an address”, Los Angeles entrepreneur Elvina Beck created PodShare, a coliving experiment where dozens …
LA ecovillage: self-reliance in car-free urban homestead by Kirsten Dirksen on June 16, 2014 In urban Los Angeles, about 3 miles west of downtown, 500 people live on 11 acres priority is given to …
Self-reliance in LA: backyard farm + radical home economics by Kirsten Dirksen on May 20, 2013 Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne have been farming their yard in Los Angeles for over a decade. In addition to …
Skinny house in LA: affordable, minimal, modern home/office by Kirsten Dirksen on May 6, 2013 Simon Storey (Anonymous) wanted to buy an affordable home so he bought the smallest and cheapest thing on the market. …
Gestión de recursos y conservación: el caso del lago Mono by Nicolás Boullosa on July 12, 2010 El lago Mono, al este del Parque Nacional de Yosemite, siempre tuvo una belleza áspera y extraterrestre -acaso psicodélica-. Mark …
The comeback of America's cities & growing walkable suburbs by Kirsten Dirksen on April 15, 2010 We’ve become a city planet (Stewart Brand’s term)- in 2008, for the first time over half of the world’s population …
