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The boulevards of L.A., long dominated by the car culture, are gradually being remade to accommodate pedestrians, cyclists and urban street life. Christopher Hawthorne has looked at the transformation on Atlantic, Lankershim, Crenshaw, Harbor, Sunset and Wilshire boulevards.
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About Christopher Hawthorne
Christopher Hawthorne is the architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times. Since coming to The Times in 2004 he has covered post-hurricane recovery efforts in New Orleans, the headlong growth of Dubai ...
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and innovative public architecture in Medellin, Colombia. But his central focus has been the changing face of Los Angeles, which he has chronicled in reviews of significant new buildings as well as in stories on mass transit, preservation battles, urban planning and landscape architecture.
A graduate of Yale, where he studied political science and architectural history, he has taught at UC Berkeley, Columbia University and Occidental College. With Alanna Stang, he is the author of "The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture," published by Princeton Architectural Press. @HawthorneLAT
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