to CoLab Radio blogger John Arroyo for winning this year’s award for best thesis in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
John did ground-breaking work on understanding the Los Angeles River for his thesis, Culture in Concrete: Art and the Re-imagination of the Los Angeles River as Civic Space.
Check out his posts, and a slew of beautiful hand-drawn maps of visions for the Los Angeles River by various River friends and aficionados, here.