Living With HIV During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Impacts for Older Adults in Palm Springs, California

We conducted surveys in March 2020 with 100 older adults living in Palm Springs, CA, to (1) report the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their day-to-day well-being and (2) describe the factors related to missing HIV medication during the pandemic. Respondent's mean age was 64.2 and the majority identified as White, men, and gay. The majority stated that the pandemic had impacted their lives “much,” “very much,” or “extremely.” One-third experienced financial challenges and 46.0% experienced disruptions to health care. Almost a quarter (24.0%) reported missing a dose of their HIV medication during the pandemic. Compared to those ages 64+, younger respondents were more likely to report some negative impacts like changes in sleep patterns, financial challenges, and missed HIV medication doses, and had higher PTSD severity scores. In adjusted logistic regression, higher PTSD severity scores and disruption to health care were associated with missed doses of medications (ps < .05).

Prehistoric earthquakes on the Banning strand of the San Andreas fault, North Palm Springs, California

We studied a paleoseismic trench excavated in 2017 across the Banning strand of the San Andreas fault and herein provide the first detailed record of ground-breaking earthquakes on this important fault in Southern California. The trench exposed an ~40-m-wide fault zone cutting through alluvial sand, gravel, silt, and clay deposits. We evaluated the paleoseismic record using a new metric that combines event indicator quality and stratigraphic uncertainty. The most recent paleoearthquake occurred between 950 and 730 calibrated years B.P. (cal yr B.P.), potentially contemporaneous with the last rupture of the San Gorgonio Pass fault zone. We interpret five surface-rupturing earthquakes since 3.3–2.5 ka and eight earthquakes since 7.1–5.7 ka. It is possible that additional events have occurred but were not recognized, especially in the deeper (older) section of the stratigraphy, which was not fully exposed across the fault zone. We calculated an average recurrence interval of 380–640 yr based on four complete earthquake cycles between earthquakes 1 and 5. The average recurrence interval is thus slightly less than the elapsed time since the most recent event on the Banning strand. The average recurrence interval on the Banning strand is thus intermediate between longer intervals published for the San Gorgonio Pass fault zone (~1600 yr) and shorter intervals on both the Mission Creek strand of the San Andreas fault (~215 yr) and the Coachella section (~125 yr) of the San Andreas fault.

La casa kaufmann del desierto. El paisaje en el análisis de la composición arquitectónica

Este artículo vincula instrumentos desarrollados para la valoración del paisaje y su utilidad, en el análisis de la composición arquitectónica. El aporte consiste en explicar mediante operaciones de proyecto las categorías estéticas para la apreciación del paisaje. Para esto se estudia la casa Kaufmann en Palm Springs de Richard Neutra mediante un análisis formal, cuyos resultados discuten el grado de conmensurabilidad en el tránsito de conceptos entre una disciplina a otra. Se plantea que la idea de paisaje es un constructo cultural que demanda educar la mirada para su apreciación. El paisaje le confiere sentido a la composición arquitectónica cumpliendo metafóricamente el papel de una semántica, que junto con una sintaxis de la forma, completan la propuesta de tener una gramática para el aprendizaje del proyecto de arquitectura planteado en una investigación anterior.

Supplemental Material: Prehistoric earthquakes on the Banning strand of the San Andreas fault, North Palm Springs, California

<div>Plate 1. Plate provides photomosaics and mapping interpretations of excavations completed at 18th Avenue trench, including sample locations and interpreted event horizons. Annotations can be turned off through Layers function.<br></div>

Supplemental Material: Prehistoric earthquakes on the Banning strand of the San Andreas fault, North Palm Springs, California

<div>Details of luminescence methods and results, and table of event indicators.<br></div>

Supplemental Material: Prehistoric earthquakes on the Banning strand of the San Andreas fault, North Palm Springs, California

<div>Plate 1. Plate provides photomosaics and mapping interpretations of excavations completed at 18th Avenue trench, including sample locations and interpreted event horizons. Annotations can be turned off through Layers function.<br></div>

Supplemental Material: Prehistoric earthquakes on the Banning strand of the San Andreas fault, North Palm Springs, California

<div>Details of luminescence methods and results, and table of event indicators.<br></div>

Whiteness on the Green

Between the early 1950s and 1970s, Palm Springs, California, a leisure and resort community in the Coachella Valley, entered into a dramatic era of growth driven by an unlikely factor: golf. Exclusive and elite country clubs employed new forms of environmental and social engineering as they transformed the arid landscape into lush, emerald fairways. The rapid rate of growth meant that courses were built without concern for significant social and ecological side effects. In particular, golf’s arrival brought new power dynamics to the valley that displaced and disenfranchised local communities of color, including the Agua Caliente band of Cahuilla Indians and a neighborhood of low-income African Americans and Mexican Americans who lived in the path of development. This expansion-oriented program of development is an example of what we might call the “leisure-industrial complex,” in which private enterprise, public policy, and cultural norms combined to create an economic machinery that soon commanded the Coachella Valley. As such, the history of Coachella golf is not just the history of a sport, but the history of how leisure came to dominate the landscape, the environment, and the people of the California desert.

Notas sobre utopia e distopia a partir da Casa Kaufmann em Palm Springs, Califórnia

Cidades e suas arquiteturas permitem leituras diversas sobre como utopias e distopias se manifestam nas experiências urbanas. Com essa perspectiva, este ensaio apresenta uma discussão sobre o tema a partir da Casa Kaufmann, emblemático projeto do arquiteto modernista Richard Neutra no final dos anos 1940, situado na cidade de Palm Springs, Califórnia. Ao observamos o projeto no contexto social da cidade, é possível identificar utopias e distopias que se estabelecem a partir de diferentes vivências e visões de mundo. Para este fim, o texto apresenta inicialmente as motivações da família Kaufmann e as intenções do arquiteto na construção de uma casa no deserto, aspirando viver o assim chamado California Dream – Sonho Californiano. Considerando especificamente o recorte comparativo entre lazer e mão de obra, o texto em seguida discute esse enfoque na cidade de Palm Springs no pós-guerra, trazendo as bases para uma posterior leitura da utopia/distopia presente na cidade, apoiada em análises de particularidades do projeto da Casa Kaufmann. O ensaio conclui observando que utopia e distopia podem ocorrer de modo simultâneo e complementar, num fluxo contínuo ao longo dos anos.