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"The ocean was not always perceived as a logical metaphor for London, nor has it proved especially appealing to those describing other cities in other places and times. Why was this the case?" Christopher Ferguson on the mystery of London as ocean. themetropole.blog/2025/04/29/lon…

It’s getting real: I’m reading the proofs of The Last House on the Block! This #ethnography is about failed #gentrification and the struggles to maintain a #home after #depopulation. Pre-order: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book… #UrbanStudies #HousingPolicy UHA

Mike Davis' Sunshine or Noir dichotomy fails to fully capture L.A.'s history, but it's a useful means to explore it, we kick off our theme month on L.A. with an overview that looks at it's less popularized community Echo Park: themetropole.blog/2025/05/06/sun… Thanks to Natalia_Molina

Girl is more than thirsty, she’s parched

Hardest part of losing someone you love -parent/spouse/child/friend, is that everyone is with you for the initial loss, but then the months and years that follow, many forget (not out of spite or anything) while you are left with this hole. It gets better, but it takes time.

"Gates was a key architect in the transformation of American policing, an innovator of policing technologies whose tactics were widely adopted by departments across the country during his tenure in Los Angeles." Aaron Stagoff on Gates and his legacy: themetropole.blog/2025/05/07/the…

they choose this pope bc chicago is a walkable city

the eye in the sky!

Lol. I want there as a kid after soccer/little league games. Dates on h.s. You get the idea. Cardinal Pizzaballa would have loved it.

BREAKING: Faith Ministers are BLOCKING the entrance to the ICE Detention Center, Delaney Hall in New Jersey where Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested last week.

If as they say in the Sopranos “remember when” nostalgia is the lowest form of conversation, red pilled Nate tweeting to complain about the other place where he spends no time, well you get the idea

An NYU professor AI-proofed his assignments. The students complained they were too hard and that “he was interfering with their ‘learning styles.’”

One Hundred Years of New York Movies Ten lesser known films from the past century have captured the city just as indelibly as modern classics by the likes of Martin Scorsese or Spike Lee. newyorker.com/culture/the-fr…

Raul Ruiz was an important figure in the Chicano Movement and beyond, his new archive Library of Congress provides researchers with the opportunity to delve into his career and the larger movement: themetropole.blog/2025/05/14/pro…

All due respect, yes, those countries (and add Argentina in the late 1970s in which a junta was disappearing and torturing people during the World Cup) are terrible, however, they weren't deporting/disappearing/jailing folks for visas or at least no such reports surfaced.

"Having survived three waves of displacement, and now facing new threats from gentrification, Little Tokyo is poised to redefine itself yet again," writes Emi Higashiyama in her dive into the LA communitty's adaptability to urban development: themetropole.blog/2025/05/21/sur… Little Tokyo HS

In the wake of LA's 2025 fires, Charlotte Leib explores the "fallacious supposition that new technologies/better design will prevent the next fire, the next flood, or the next degree of global heating" and how highway construction contributed to it all: themetropole.blog/2025/05/27/eng…

Los Angeles's MacArthur Park has been at the center of policing and harm reduction debates over the past several years. Kimberly M. Soriano discusses its place in these discussions and what's been missed: themetropole.blog/2025/05/28/mac…