 Design in the Public Realm
Donlyn Lyndon, FAIA, is Eva Li Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Emeritus, at UC Berkeley and one of the founding editors of PLACES, Forum of Design for the Public Realm, which can now be read online at places.designobserver.com. He is a recipient of the AIA/ACSA Topaz Award and the AIACC Lifetime Achievement Award. Lyndon’s writings, buildings, and teaching have explored ways that architecture can relate to the places of which it is a part and enhance the lives of those who live there. He may be reached at
dlyndon@berkeley.edu.
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 Infrastructure: Need and Opportunity
Thomas W. Bishop holds dual positions with URS Corporation. As Senior Vice President, he is responsible for overseeing the URS Division’s operations in the Western United States, as well as in Europe, the Middle East, and China. He also directs URS’ construction services group, which provides construction management, program management, and construction services to clients throughout the United States. As Vice President of Strategic Development, he directs the company’s business forecasting and budgeting, risk management, and strategic initiatives. Click here to read article.
Changing Practice in Civil Engineering - An Interview with Bry Sarte, Sherwood Design Engineers
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 The L.A. River: Plain Drain No More
John Chase, Assoc. AIA, is Urban Designer for the City of West Hollywood and is Chair of the arcCA Editorial Board. He co-edited, along with Margaret Crawford and John Kaliski, Everyday Urbanism, reviewed in this issue. He may be reached at jchase@weho.org.
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 Rising Tides: an Rising Tides: an International Competition
David Meckel, FAIA, is Director of Research & Planning for the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco. He may be reached at dmeckel@cca.edu.
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 Central Plants: From Back of House to Center Stage
Michael Franklin Ross, FAIA, is a principal with HGA Architects and Engineers in Los Angeles. He was 2007 Chair of the AIA Committee on Design and 2006 Chair of the AIACC Design Awards Jury. The author of Beyond Metabolism: The New Japanese Architecture, he has contributed over 80 articles to the architectural press, including Architectural Record, Progressive Architecture, A+U Architecture & Urbanism, LA Architect (now known as FORM), Places, and arcCA. He has been on the faculty of Tokyo University, UCLA and SCI-Arc. He may be reached at mross@hga.com. Click here to read article.
 Infrastructure at Mission Bay: a Conversation
Amy Eliot, AIA, LEED AP, is a principal of Tom Eliot Fisch, a San Francisco based architecture and interior design practice focused on creating community-serving environments characterized by attention to material and craft.
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 Book Review: The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles
Steven Flusty is an L.A. geographer temporarily exiled to the Provinces, where he serves as an Associate Professor of York University. His primary obsession is the everyday practices of global formation, a topic he has interrogated most ruthlessly in De-Coca-Colonization: Making the Globe from the Inside Out (Routledge, 2004). His work has also appeared in assorted electronic media and a selection of academic, professional, and popular journals of varying degrees of repute. He may be reached at sflusty@yorku.ca
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 The AIACC and Disaster Preparedness
Lori Reed is Director of Marketing and Communications at the AIA California Council. She may be reached at lreed@aiacc.org.
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Off the Grid 2.0
Healing the Damaged Edge" Horseshoe cove at Fort Baker - Ideas Competition for Restorative Design
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CODA
Peter Hasselman, FAlA, is an Orinda architect and veteran of many urban design studies for the Urban Land Institute and the AlA. He may be reached at hassel2@comcast.net. Click here to read article
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