Nate Berg’s Posts

• Talk about a culture jam

  The social life of traffic 1

  Posted 2 months, 1 week ago

  Who's responsible for that traffic jam you're sitting in? Hint: You, dude. Find out why human psychology has more to do with stuck cars than road engineering or that eternal construction project up ahead.

• Buy It

  The Informal Economy: Michael Jackson Edition 1

  Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago

  The mass memorial for the recently departed mega-star breathed surprising life into the underutilized downtown of Los Angeles.

• Whose plaza is it anyway?

  Improving on the ambiguity of privately owned public spaces 0

  Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago

  

  This article is part of a collaboration with Planetizen, the web's leading resource for the urban planning, design, and development community.

  Cities are filled with spaces intended for the public -- but many of them are clearly owned and operated by the private sector. Though cities bend rules to get these spaces built, the public benefit is often outweighed by the cost. The challenge now is to make them better.

  The difference between what is public and what is… Read More

• Inside the mind of the green market

  Musings from an L.A. green-biz conference 1

  Posted 10 months ago

  

  This article is part of a collaboration with Planetizen, the web's leading resource for the urban planning, design, and development community.

  The green marketplace is the marketplace of the future. From Wal-Mart to Toyota to the neighborhood dry cleaner, it seems like every business is going out of its way to tell us how green it is. That could either be a great thing, because these businesses are actually using environmentally friendly practices, or it could be a… Read More

• Not just for drug deals anymore

  Greening the alleys of Los Angeles 0

  Posted 10 months, 1 week ago

  

  This article is part of a collaboration with Planetizen, the web's leading resource for the urban planning, design, and development community.

  Green alley projects are popping up in cities all over the U.S. and Canada, in an effort to make the concrete jungle a little better at absorbing rainwater. A new program in Los Angeles goes beyond the runoff to actively integrate these once-derelict spaces into the urban fold.

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