Category Archives: transportation

Air

Posted on February 12, 2013 by hitc

This episode, we launch a three-part series from radio art collective, RadioSonideros called Air. Water. Earth. It was first broadcast as part of a floating radio station on the Staten Island Ferry in 2007: The FM Ferry Experiment. Also in … Continue reading →

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Two events: one tragic, one joyous

Posted on April 18, 2012 by hitc

On this episode, we take you to the 10 miles of streets where countless thousands of Angelinos had the rare pleasure of walking, cycling, skating, and otherwise propelling themselves on human power, exclusively, for a day during this April’s Ciclavia event. … Continue reading →

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Air Check: voices from the Inglewood Oilfield

Posted on November 16, 2011 by hitc

Hear in the City will spend then next few shows in the Baldwin Hills at the Inglewood Oilfield. This place is perched on the summit overlooking the past and the future. On one side, the oil discoveries that drew wealth … Continue reading →

Posted in Air Check Series, air pollution, arts, film, and music, Baldwin Hills, community arts, culture in the city, Culver City, economy and equality, local oil production, marginalize communities, public health, public radio, sustainability, transportation, urban environment, water resources, work | Tagged Baldwin Hills, BHC, David McNeill, Dexter Story, Inglewood Oilfield, kpfk.org, Ladera Little League, Newsdesk.org, PXP, Sara Harris, Spot.us, Thandisizwe Chimurenga | 1 Comment

community gardens, cuban photography, and bicycle bells

Posted on August 10, 2011 by hitc

On this week’s episode, we offer a mixed bag of art and culture happening around Los Angeles. Luis Sierra Campos visits a community garden in Highland Park that serves as a model for urban sustainability and food security in a … Continue reading →

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Two wheels and a mic: rights and cyclists in the city

Posted on July 11, 2011 by hitc

On this episode of Hear in the City we resume our conversation with Patrick Miller who is an arts educator, DJ, and avid cyclist. He is also involved in several cycling initiatives both official and more informal across the city … Continue reading →

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19th century transportation in the 21st century: 6/28/2011

Posted on June 30, 2011 by hitc

On this week’s Hear in the City, we launch a new series called Two Wheels and a Mic by checking in with artist, educator, and bicycle activist Patrick Miller about an incident in Los Angeles that made national news last … Continue reading →

Posted in arts, film, and music, Baldwin Hills, bicycling, culture in the city, economy and equality, film, infrastructure, LAPD, public radio, smog, Special Series, transportation, Two Wheels and a Mic, urban environment | Tagged Critical Mass, cycling in Los Angeles, experimental film, Hear in the City, James Benning, Jesse Lerner, Midnight Ridazz, Patrick Miller, RR, Sara Harris | 1 Comment

the time show: 6/14/2011

Posted on June 15, 2011 by hitc

On this week’s show, we enter the space of a meticulous 24-hour-long video documentation of one entire day in Christian Marclay’s new work, The Clock, we consider the expanded day of June 16th, 1904, as Bloomsday and James Joyce’s Ulysses … Continue reading →

Posted in arts, film, and music, culture in the city, economy and equality, film, love, marginalize communities, poetry, public health, transportation, Uncategorized, urban environment | Tagged Albert Chacon, Albert Wachtel, BART, Bloomsday, Christian Marclay, Hear in the City, HITC, James Joyce, Jesse Lerner, Johannes Mehserle, KPFK 90.7FM, LACMA, Los Angeles, Luis Sierra Campos, Oscar Grant, Pacifica Radio, Pitzer College, Thandisizwe Chimurenga, The Clock, Time Sara Harris, UCLA's Hammer Museum, Ulysses, www.hearinthecity.org, www.kpfk.org | Leave a comment

the place show: 6/07/2011

Posted on June 8, 2011 by hitc

Hear in the City is back in the ether after a break. On this week’s show, we hear about two very different urban places that are well worth visiting. Listen to the audio archive here: A … Continue reading →

Posted in community arts, culture in the city, economy and equality, education, film, public health, public radio, sustainability, transportation, urban environment, water resources | Tagged Angeles National Forest, Anne Bray, Echo Park Film Center, Hear in the City, Holly Harper, KPFK, KPFK 90.7FM, L.A. Freewaves, Mapping The City Through Sound, MTA, Out The Window, Public Matters, San Gabriel Mountains, Sara Harris, Station Fire, Transit T.V., UCLA REMAP, Urban Space | Leave a comment

4/12/2011: Urban Innovations and La Batalla de Chile

Posted on April 19, 2011 by hitc

CicLAvia: Los Angeles is home to 3 and a half million people, 2 and half million automobiles on six and half thousand miles of public streets. Seven of those miles were automobile free this past Sunday, open only to cyclists, … Continue reading →

Posted in Boyle Heights, culture in the city, Downtown, East Hollywood, economy and equality, infrastructure, Little Tokyo, public health, public radio, street parades, sustainability, transportation, Two Wheels and a Mic, Uncategorized, urban environment | Tagged bicycling | Leave a comment

04/05/11: Ciclavia & Education in Crisis Series
Ciclavia 2011

Posted on April 7, 2011 by hitc

Luis Sierra Campos meets up with the community outreach coordinator for Ciclavia, happening this Sunday, when the city will make seven miles of roads automobile-free for an afternoon, open only to cyclists, pedestrians, and other people moving on their own … Continue reading →