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What Does Current Young Adult Space Practice Teach Us About Young Adult...

This poster presents the findings to date from the IMLS grant “Making Space for Young Adults in Public Libraries,” which represents the first attempt to systematically examine Young Adult (YA) space...

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Learning from Librarians and Teens about YA Library Spaces

This study sought to collect data from teens and librarians about their preferences and recommendations for the effective design of physical library spaces for teens. Librarians and teens at 22 U.S....

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"This Is Our Library, and It's a Pretty Cool Place": A User-Centered Study of...

This study sought to collect data from teens and librarians about their preferences and recommendations for the effective design of physical library spaces for teens. Librarians and teens at twenty-two...

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Obstacles to Participation: The Little Free Library Edition — A TTW Guest...

Tame the Web, March 30, 2015. Using the example of a Little Free Library code violation controversy in Los Angeles, and drawing from my urban planning and public library experiences, I offer four...

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Libraries, Change, and the Future — A TTW Guest Post by Jonathan Pacheco Bell

Tame the Web, April 6, 2015.

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Reyner Banham, Mike Davis, and the Discourse on Los Angeles Ecology

UrbDeZine, July 14, 2015.

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Epitaph for Edward W. Soja

Excerpt:We lost a legend with the passing of Professor Edward W. Soja last month in Los Angeles. Soja’s contributions to the spatial disciplines are as innumerable and diverse as the students he...

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Converting Garages into a Dissertation: A Conversation with Jacob Wegmann

UrbDeZine, June 17, 2014. In part 1 of the article, I highlight that burgeoning scholarship on "informality" in the U.S. housing market fails to address the implementation side of planning: the...

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Response to Comments: The Informal Housing Debate Remains Open

UrbDeZine, November 12, 2014. In this follow up article on informal housing in Los Angeles, I respond to comments and take on critics who devalue housing code enforcement. I argue that unpermitted...

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New Horizons: Libraries, Space, and People — A TTW Guest Post by Jonathan...

Tame the Web, April 20, 2015

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