The seaside neighborhood, once known for its weirdness and diversity, has gentrified into a wealthy tech enclave. As old and new residents fight for their visions of Venice, could secession from LA be next?
Simply put, the megaproject formerly known as Atlantic Yards is truly, finally, becoming a thing. Curbed checks in on the site's progress as it prepares to welcome its first residents.
The Los Angeles County coast was a treacherous place until the first lighthouses were built in the late 1800s and early 1900s, bringing independent women, heartbroken widowers, drunks, and more to isolated blufftop posts.
In the second installment of Engineered Nature, Karrie Jacobs explores the Buffalo Bayou in Houston and examines how a change in perspective can turn a highway’s inhospitable underside into a bucolic park.
New York City has over 520 miles of coastline, but instead of battling crowds at Fort Tilden, consider a different way of interacting with the city's changing waterfront. The 20 "beaches" here offer a quiet place for those seeking solitude.
As Los Angeles boomed in the 1910s, civic leaders longed for a public venue for concerts, events, and, if they were lucky, the Olympics. The LA Memorial Coliseum cost only $800,000, but it helped make the young city a star.
The Hills on Governors Island are a perfect example of the hallmark of 21st century design: objects that are hybrids, part manmade and part natural. Karrie Jacobs examines the engineering behind the landscape.
Strip clubs are common in the kind of urban neighborhood that has been overrun by gentrification in the last several years. Now that a richer, slicker demographic has arrived, can they adapt to their new environments?
The enormous Hotel Arcadia, built on a low seaside bluff in the 1880s, was Santa Monica’s first grand hotel. Over the years it was the site of fabulous parties, nasty scandals, and a murder attempt by one of Los Angeles's most prominent citizens.
With techies pouring in from across the Bay and prices skyrocketing, Oakland may be the most rapidly changing city in America right now. From hipster flips to Uber to brand new neighborhoods to the Black Panthers, here’s the view from the inside.
The Black Panther Party’s Oakland Community School was a beacon for the poor African American and Latino community in East Oakland in the ‘70s and ‘80s, but today its cinder block building remains unacknowledged as the threat of gentrification looms.
Brooklyn Basin will create an entirely new neighborhood from scratch on a formerly barren site along the Oakland waterfront, and that’s sure to send shockwaves out into the surrounding communities.
Uber and other tech companies are flooding across the Bay into Oakland. The city is hoping to take advantage of the money, technology, and power arriving on its shores, but the tech industry might take something just as valuable from Oakland.
The bizarrely tilted house at 2523 Martin Luther King Jr. Way has tracked the city’s fast-moving gentrification wave, from squatting artists to opportunistic flippers, with a stop at mortgage fraud on the way. But does it have a future?
A psychic told Winchester Repeating Arms Company heiress Sarah Winchester that she had the blood of 100 million gun victims on her hands. So beginning in 1884 she spent 38 years channeling her guilt into the design of a surreal mansion in San Jose.
For years, the conventional wisdom has been that millennials prefer urban living and the culture of the big cities, but as millennials age, and more marry and consider starting families, the numbers tell a different story.
Palm Springs is famous for the midcentury modern design that has become ubiquitous in the last decade, but the city is spurring a new design trend as it embraces its brutalist treasures of the 1970s. How long until we all have concrete coffee tables?
Alley Creek has undergone a remarkable recovery since the 1970s, when it was a neglected dumping ground. Today, the waterway, which flows through Alley Pond Park in eastern Queens, has been returned to life.
One of Ronald Reagan’s favorite places was his Rancho del Cielo, where he spent a cumulative year of his presidency, finishing his "Washington homework" in the morning, then riding and splitting wood the rest of the day. The press was not invited.
Over two decades in the 1800s, the San Bernardino town of Agua Mansa became the largest settlement between New Mexico and the Pacific coast, until it was wiped out by a flood in 1862. Today it's a ghost town marked only by its old cemetery.
Midcentury works of pop sociology and psychology and pulp fiction reveal a great deal about the preoccupations of midcentury Americans. And midcentury Americans believed their suburban homes were destroying their lives.
C3, a new homelessness program in LA’s Skid Row, sends teams of outreach workers and health professionals out onto the streets to create relationships with homeless residents and help them transition into housing. So far it's been a success.
A nonprofit brings together a powerful group of builders, architects, film and hospitality moguls, city leaders, and volunteers to create a community-based, permanent housing model for the chronically homeless. And then builds it.
Today, the city of Calabasas is known for its celebrity residents, including Justin Bieber and all of the Kardashians, but in the homesteading era, it was a vicious hotbed of murder, theft, and ruthless land grabs.
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