The Tijuana-San Ysidro border crossing is the world’s busiest land border crossing. Over 17 million vehicles and 50 million people entered the United States at the San Ysidro port of entry a year. Many of the border crossing involve workers commuting and people visiting family members.The traffic at the border crossing reflects the symbiotic relationship [...]

This was taken near the Los Angeles Central Library. This plaque indicates that the sidewalk across the street from the library (along 5th) is actually privately owned. This privatization of public space, to create what some have called post-public space, has profound implications on the physical navigation and use of cities. Los Angeles is not [...]

I like how the private space of the skyscrapers looms over the public space of the library in this picture. Bunker Hill’s “Fortification” as Mike Davis has called it, is stark when looking at the organization of space around the Central Library. Much of the area around the library, including the sidewalks, are technically private [...]