The Right 'To Be Secure': Los Angeles v. Patel

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Milligan
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
The Right

Gentrification, Displacement, and the Right to the City

2019 ◽  
pp. 168-194
Author(s):  
Jan Lin
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Private Investment ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Transit Oriented Development ◽  
Family Networks ◽  
Social Violence ◽  
Accumulation By Dispossession ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

Examines the impacts of the sharpening gentrification process in Northeast Los Angeles and its socioeconomic and racial overtones as immigrant working class Latino/a families are increasingly threatened by displacement through rent increases, evictions, and socially traumatic uprooting of multi-family networks. Gentrification is tied to neoliberal local state efforts in Los Angeles to incentivize private investment through urban policy strategies like transit-oriented development, transit villages and small lot housing development. I argue the creative frontier of urban restructuring in Northeast LA also generates social violence expressing capitalism’s tendency to foster “accumulation by dispossession” that has been countered by neighborhood “right to the city” movements. I examine the rise of the urban social movements like Friends of Highland Park and Northeast LA Alliance that advocate for the rights of those threatened by housing displacement and eviction, address community and environmental impacts of new high-density housing projects, and campaign for more socially just housing and urban planning policies in Los Angeles. There is also examination of the plight of the homeless and rehabilitating gang members

Truck Drivers

2021 ◽  
pp. 311-445
Author(s):  
Scott L. Cummings
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Truck Drivers ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Innovative Strategy ◽  
Independent Contractors ◽  
Labor Conditions ◽  
The Status ◽  
Big Box ◽  
The Right ◽  
Trucking Companies

This chapter examines the monumental campaign to raise labor and environmental standards in the trucking industry at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports. Building on the blue-green coalition launched in the CBA and big-box contexts—and incorporating central lessons from a decade of community–labor organizing in Los Angeles—the Campaign for Clean Trucks emerged as a fight over air quality but ultimately advanced as a local policy struggle over working conditions for roughly sixteen thousand short-haul port truck drivers. For these drivers, the central problem was their misclassification as independent contractors. Misclassification forced drivers to bear all the costs of operation—contributing to poorly maintained dirty diesel trucks causing air pollution—while depriving them of the right to organize unions to improve labor conditions. Restoring drivers to the status of employees was the mutual goal bringing together the labor and environmental movements in this campaign. It rested on a novel legal foundation: The ports, as publicly owned and operated entities, had the power to define the terms of entry for trucking companies through contracts called concession agreements. The campaign—led by LAANE, the Teamsters union, and NRDC—leveraged this contracting power to win passage of the landmark 2008 Clean Truck Program, which committed trucking companies seeking to enter the Los Angeles port to a double conversion: of dirty to clean fuel trucks (thus reducing pollution) and of independent contractor to employee drivers (thus enabling unionization). However, the program’s labor centerpiece—employee conversion—was invalidated by an industry preemption lawsuit that went all the way to the United States Supreme Court. As a result, the policy gains from a blue-green campaign built on mutual interest were split apart and reallocated, resulting in environmental victory but labor setback. Why the coalition won the local policy battle but lost in court—and how the labor movement responded to this legal setback through an innovative strategy to maneuver around preemption—are the central questions this chapter explores.

scholarly journals The Right to Have Digital Rights in Smart Cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (20) ◽  
pp. 11438
Author(s):  
Igor Calzada
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Long Beach ◽  
Digital Rights ◽  
City Councils ◽  
Policy Experimentation ◽  
City Network ◽  
The Right

New data-driven technologies in global cities have yielded potential but also have intensified techno-political concerns. Consequently, in recent years, several declarations/manifestos have emerged across the world claiming to protect citizens’ digital rights. In 2018, Barcelona, Amsterdam, and NYC city councils formed the Cities’ Coalition for Digital Rights (CCDR), an international alliance of global People-Centered Smart Cities—currently encompassing 49 cities worldwide—to promote citizens’ digital rights on a global scale. People-centered smart cities programme is the strategic flagship programme by UN-Habitat that explicitly advocates the CCDR as an institutionally innovative and strategic city-network to attain policy experimentation and sustainable urban development. Against this backdrop and being inspired by the popular quote by Hannah Arendt on “the right to have rights”, this article aims to explore what “digital rights” may currently mean within a sample consisting of 13 CCDR global people-centered smart cities: Barcelona, Amsterdam, NYC, Long Beach, Toronto, Porto, London, Vienna, Milan, Los Angeles, Portland, San Antonio, and Glasgow. Particularly, this article examines the (i) understanding and the (ii) prioritisation of digital rights in 13 cities through a semi-structured questionnaire by gathering 13 CCDR city representatives/strategists’ responses. These preliminary findings reveal not only distinct strategies but also common policy patterns.

The Coastal Sea Breeze in Relation to Diurnal Temperature Changes in the Lower Atmosphere (Southern California)

1947 ◽  
Vol 28 (8) ◽  
pp. 371-380
Author(s):  
Luna B. Leopold ◽  
Charles G. P. Beer
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Vertical Motion ◽  
Sea Breeze ◽  
Lower Atmosphere ◽  
Los Angeles Basin ◽  
Temperature Changes ◽  
Coastal Sea ◽  
Order Of Magnitude ◽  
The Right ◽  
Right Order

A diurnal variation of temperature at constant levels in the lower atmosphere was observed at all stations in the Los Angeles basin area. The amplitude of the variation increases with height. This variation has been studied as a diurnal oscillation in the height of isentropic surfaces. The rise and fall of isentropic surfaces may indicate an appreciable diurnal change of vertical motion, but in the higher levels, are at least partly explained by errors in measurement of temperatures by radiosondes. In levels below 4,000 feet msl vertical motion of the right order of magnitude could be caused by the diurnal accumulation and depletion of air as a result of the sea-breeze regime.

Calendar of Documents and Related Historical Materials in the Archival Center, Archdiocese of Los Angeles for the Episcopate of the Right Reverend Thomas James Conaty.

1992 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 1552
Author(s):  
Timothy Walch ◽  
Miriam Ann Cunningham ◽  
Robert D. Schuster ◽  
James Stambaugh ◽  
Ferne Weimer
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Historical Materials ◽  
Archdiocese Of Los Angeles ◽  
The Right

scholarly journals Computed tomography reveals hip dysplasia in Smilodon: Implications for social behavior in an extinct Pleistocene predator

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mairin A. Balisi ◽  
Abhinav K. Sharma ◽  
Carrie M. Howard ◽  
Christopher A. Shaw ◽  
Robert Klapper ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Computed Tomography ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Hip Dysplasia ◽  
Social Strategies ◽  
Mammal Species ◽  
Historical Interpretation ◽  
Congenital Condition ◽  
Patterns Of Behavior ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

AbstractReconstructing the behavior of extinct species is challenging, particularly for those with no living analogues. However, damage preserved as paleopathologies on bone can record how an animal moved in life, potentially reflecting patterns of behavior. Here, for the first time, we use computed tomography (CT) to assess hypothesized etiologies of pathology in a pelvis and associated right femur of an adult Smilodon fatalis saber-toothed cat, one of the best-studied mammal species from the Pleistocene-age Rancho La Brea asphalt seeps, Los Angeles, California. The pelvis exhibits massive destruction of the right acetabulum that previously was interpreted, for nearly a century, to have resulted from trauma and infection. We evaluated this historical interpretation using CT imaging to supplement gross morphology in identifying symptoms of traumatic, infective, or degenerative arthritis. We found that the pathologic distortions are inconsistent with degenerative changes that started only later in life, as in the case of infective or traumatic arthritis. Rather, they characterize chronic remodeling that began at birth and led to degeneration of the joint over time. These findings suggest that this individual suffered from hip dysplasia, a congenital condition common in domestic dogs and cats.The individual examined in this study reached adulthood (at least four to seven years of age) but never could have hunted properly nor defended territory on its own. As such, this individual, and other critically pathologic Smilodon like it, likely survived to adulthood by association with a social group that assisted it with feeding and protection. The pathologic specimens examined here in detail are consistent with a spectrum of social strategies in Smilodon supported by a predominance of previous studies. This application of a relatively new and interdisciplinary technique to an old question therefore informs the longstanding debate between social and solitary hypotheses for the behavior of an extinct predator.

Spaces of the City

Global Cities ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Gottlieb ◽  
Simon Ng
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Spatial Strategies ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City

The chapter analyzes and compares the different uses of urban space – whether public space, open space, or privatized space -- in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China. It contrasts the modernist spatial strategies that cater to the automobile and traffic flow and the desire for speed with an alternative view about a more walkable, bikeable, and transit friendly urban environment. It compares the immigrant and different ethnic experiences – a Latino immigrant urbanism in Los Angeles, elderly women dancing in the streets of the city in China, or the immigrant communities constructed in the village-in-the-city enclaves in places like Shenzhen and Guangzhou. It describes the rise of the gated communities in all three places in contrast to the growing advocacy around the right to the city for everyone.

The Queer Nation Acts Up: Health Care, Politics, and Sexual Diversity in the County of Angels

1992 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 609-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Goltmakor
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Sexual Diversity ◽  
Health Care Politics ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Act Up ◽  
The Right ◽  
Constitutional Privacy ◽  
Political Groups

The emergence of organized political groups of people with AIDS has forced issues of health and illness into a public visibility which threatens traditional assumptions of privacy and public heterosexual privilege. The struggle against the stigmatization of AIDS has forced many gay men and lesbians to reject the relative pleasures of the closet and its legal girdings in discredited notions of constitutional privacy for a radical insistence on the right to be ‘queer’ on their own terms in public. ACT UP and Queer Nation present a threat not only to prevailing state and church ideologies of power and submission, but perhaps more importantly to the gendered and sexualized assumptions which define the boundaries of public space itself. People who are ill and people defined as degenerates present a special threat to the historical myths and antiurban morphology of Los Angeles, which still is perceived as an island of private consumption and public piety by those in power. The challenge presented by ACT UP and Queer Nation is an integral part of the spatial densification of the region, feared by old Anglo and new Catholic authorities.

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