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A Brief History on the Gateway Cities
"Long before freeways, shopping malls, tract houses and factories, most of the Gateway City terrain was low lying forest floodplains and marshlands." A tour through time and space with Mike The Poet.
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Two Sides of the River
Ric Alviso remembers growing up on both sides of the channel of the Lower Los Angeles River. "The river channel connected the two halves of my family and the concrete riverbed was the closest path back and forth."
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Lay of the Land: A Feeling for Topography
D. J. Waldie on intimacy with the landscape, living on "the flood plain over which the San Gabriel and Los Angeles rivers have, for millennia, braided channels to the sea."
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How Abuela’s Landscape Will Shape the Next American City
James Rojas describes the enduring places that shape our values. "For a multi-generational community it begins with the spaces, relationships, and stories we inherit from our elders."
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Hemos Estado Luchando
Vickie Vértiz on the harsh landscapes in which we live and survive. "In southeast Los Angeles County, there’s a little bit of both, a fertility and a cautiousness, abundance and danger in our lawns and fields."
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Communicating Waters
D. J. Waldie on how "the flow of urban runoff in gutters and through storm drains and across watersheds links people and landscapes up and down the San Gabriel River. Moving water dissolves the distance between front yard and beachfront. Understanding that connection means filling in the spaces between the islands of your mental map."
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Man vs. Nature
Bicycling the San Gabriel River from Cerritos to Seal Beach with Mike the Poet
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A Ride Along With Birds
The Winged Partners in Lynwood. Muriel Fernandez Remembers a Childhood Exploring the Landscapes of the Gateway Cities
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