Cultural Tour of Los Angeles: Eat Your Way through L.A.
A few decades ago, demographic data began to reveal how California was becoming the most culturally diverse state and Los Angeles the most culturally diverse metropolitan area in the...
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COVID-free Spaces in Pandemic Places: Coping with COVID-19 across California
As the COVID-19 pandemic peaks again in the fall and drags on into winter, 2020, it is our duty to provide this update, our latest attempt to make a...
Bill Bowen Maps California’s Many Faces
In this story that has necessarily expanded with unfortunate current events, you are invited to compare the following maps that illustrate how education, ethnicity, and politics combine to mold...
COVID-19 Update: Divisions Resurface in the Golden State
During the past six weeks, California has arguably changed faster than at any time in history. We started with what seemed to be a concerted effort to eliminate the...
COVID-19 Attacks California
An ominous, somewhat Orwellian electronic road sign loomed over us: “Stay calm, Stay informed, Stay safe.” For the two decades since this project began, we’ve analyzed scores of earthquakes,...
California Meets Southeast Asia
How might our environment influence our mental and physical well-being and performance? The sometimes mysterious power of place and space reminds us that the natural and built environments that...
Forest Management, Fires, Urban Renewal, and a Life of Purpose
Perhaps the most rewarding aspect of working as a college instructor is watching your students’ progress. They are hopefully gathering the necessary knowledge and skills for survival and success,...
Welcome to Tijuana: Caravans, Computers, Carnivals, and Controversy
We have often noted how California’s physical and human geography extends far beyond our state’s borders. This is particularly true when we examine our natural landscapes and the processes...
Extreme Gentrification?
In our publication, we have examined how California’s wild economic roller coaster can quickly create individual and geographic winners and losers. Likewise, the economic and geographic distances between the...
Little Saigon
Fleeing a hostile communist regime that would take control there, waves of refugees flooded out of South Vietnam during the fall of Saigon in 1975. Many poured into the...
