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Category Archives: Special Series
Air Check: the problem beneath the park
On our last episode, we heard from residents about the history of oil fields and parkland in the Baldwin Hills, Ladera Heights, Windsor Hills, and Culver City Crest in South Los Angeles. On this week’s show, we hear about two … Continue reading
Posted in Air Check Series, air pollution, arts, film, and music, Baldwin Hills, City Government, community redevelopment, culture in the city, Echo Park, Echo Park, economy and equality, film, infrastructure, Inglewood, local oil production, public health, public radio, Special Series, urban environment
Tagged Air Check, Baldwin Hills, Baldwin Hills Conservancy, Citizen's Coalition for a Safe Environment, Community Health Councils, Echo Park Film Center, Inglewood Oilfield, Ladera Heights, Newsdesk.org, petroleum extraction, PXP, Sara Harris, Spot.us, Sunset and Alvarado, Thandisizwe Chimurenga
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community gardens, cuban photography, and bicycle bells
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
Posted in arts, film, and music, bicycling, community arts, culture in the city, economy and equality, marginalize communities, music, photography, public health, public radio, Special Series, sustainability, transportation, Two Wheels and a Mic, Uncategorized, urban environment, work
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Two wheels and a mic: rights and cyclists in the city
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
Posted in air pollution, bicycling, culture in the city, Culver City, economy and equality, infrastructure, LAPD, smog, Special Series, street parades, sustainability, transportation, Two Wheels and a Mic, urban environment
Tagged bicycling in Los Angeles, Bike Oven, Bikeside L.A., Culver City, cycling in the city, Hear in the City, L.A. Eco Village, LACM, LAPD, Los Angeles Critical Mass, Patrick Miller, transportation in the city, Two Wheels and a Mic
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19th century transportation in the 21st century: 6/28/2011
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
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4/19/2011: holding council
On this installment of Hear in the City, we experience the Native American tradition of council in a non-traditional setting: a high school classroom just east of the Greyhound station in one of L.A.’s oldest schoolhouses, Metropolitan High where student … Continue reading
Posted in arts, film, and music, censorship, community arts, Crisis in Education, culture in the city, Downtown, economy and equality, education, GLBTQ life, Hurricane Katrina, LAUSD, Little Tokyo, marginalize communities, MOCA, Special Series, street art, The HeArt Project, theater, Uncategorized
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4/12/2011: Urban Innovations and La Batalla de Chile
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
04/05/11: Ciclavia & Education in Crisis Series
Environmental Essay
Host Sara Harris shares her point of view on recent responses from government and industry to environmental disasters.
04/05/11: Ciclavia & Education in Crisis Series
Teacher Educational Program at UCLA
Continuing our Education in Crisis series, Hear in the City visits an innovative graduate program UCLA IMPACT: Urban Teacher Residency, to talk with Dr. Annamarie Francois. She sees a new movement of teacher apprenticeship as one solution to the problem … Continue reading
03/29/2011: Education in Crisis
LAUSD School Number 13
Hear in the City visits the construction site of LAUSD School Number 13, to learn more about the New School Construction Program, was approved by voters in 2007. We talk with a young engineer at the site about the new … Continue reading
Posted in 022: 3/29/2011: Education in Crisis, City Government, community redevelopment, Crisis in Education, Cypress Park, economy and equality, education, gender, infrastructure, LAUSD, Special Series, sustainability, Uncategorized, urban environment, work
Tagged achitecture, construction, high school, new contstruction, Sara Harris, school budget, teacher shortages, voter initiatives
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03/29/2011: Education in Crisis
National Conference on Bilingual Education 2011
For the next three weeks, Hear in the City will spend time with students, teachers, administrators, and parents to talk about how we are all dealing with a serious problem in public education in Los Angeles. Today we head to … Continue reading
Posted in 022: 3/29/2011: Education in Crisis, City Government, Compton, Crisis in Education, culture in the city, economy and equality, education, LAUSD, Long Beach, Special Series, Uncategorized
Tagged bilingual education, demographic changes, LAUSD, Sara Harris, schools and parents
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