Christopher Hawthorne, LA's architecture czar, breaks down the city's problems

2021-09-02T12:55:00-04:00

No other city has understood its connection to mobility the way Los Angeles has. There’s a longstanding view that the city is most legible through motion. You read it by moving through it.

Christopher Hawthorne, LA Mayor Garcetti's architecture czar, and previous LA Times architecture critic categorize the city's problems into two groups. One is housing, housing, and housing. The other is housing, mobility, and equity.

In the interview, these challenges are explained and some solutions are offered in an objective and sober language which advocates its creative approaches.

Los Angeles has started its parley into the next iteration of itself in the early 80's by rebuilding its mass transportation system. The changes to its societal breakdown and the urban environment becoming more accelerated and visible.

Hawthorne explains the changes necessary and gives a loose timeline to achieve some of the solutions. Considering, the current political makeup of the city will remain in similar lines.

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Christopher Hawthorne, LA's architecture czar, breaks down the city's problems