The Architect · Liam · Los Angeles
Old Pasadena Street Grid Walk
I take architecture students here to show them what a pre-car LA street felt like. The brick scale, continuous sidewalk canopies, human-paced block dimensions — it's an argument for
Old Pasadena's brick commercial fabric from the 1890s–1920s. The most intact pre-automobile urban block in the LA region.
— Liam, The Architect
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