Urban utopia or nightmarish sprawl? Dream city or hell town? What kind of world do you envision? UCLA researchers are creating new ways to explore, research and understand cities – and sharing their visions of the perfect place.

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Imagine walking down L.A.’s Temple Street with a hand-held GPS device. As you cross Beaudry Avenue, a flag pops up on the device’s on-screen map. Turns out an earlier user of an online interactive guidebook has “attached” a digital image or a snippet of information to these GPS coordinates. Interested in L.A. […]

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Team UCLA engineering and art students with Disney Imagineers, then charge them with bringing together art, education, history, culture, community and technology in a very traditional venue – a state park. See what happened when Remapping L.A. gave it a shot. <more>

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New Orleans after Katrina. The economic decline of Buffalo, NY. UCLA’s Nicholas Entrikin studies how external factors can force us to re-imagine cities – and what that reveals about the importance of “place.” <more>

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Guns, Germs and Steel (Quicktime / 2:31 min)Meet UCLA professor Jared Diamond and learn about the inspiration for his best-seller.   Download QuickTime here.
Lesson: Be voraciously curious.
UCLA’s Jared Diamond brings together such seemingly unconnected topics as (to name but a few) the domestication of animals; the development of the Indo-European family of languages; the […]

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UCLA’s Susan McClary earned a reputation for originality in the field of musicology by interpreting symphonies and popular songs as cultural artifacts, much as art historians and English professors do with paintings, sculpture, novels and poetry. Her work examines musical repertories ranging from early 17th-century opera to the songs of Madonna. <more>

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UCLA enjoys a global reputation for academic excellence, but did you know that right in the middle of all this concentrated energy, right in the middle of this world-class research university, are every-bit-as-world-class dance, drama, music, museums, architectural gems, film festivals, lectures and library exhibitions that are available not only to students, but […]

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UCLA Arts ArtsBridge supports the creative and intellectual growth of K-12 students and educators in urban schools, and, simultaneously, prepares UCLA students to become capable, innovative, and engaged arts educators. Long-term community partnerships spark the development of inspired learners and active community members. ArtsBridge was recognized recently by the President’s Higher Education Honor Roll for […]

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Animator Shane Acker has two master’s degrees from UCLA, in architecture (‘98) and animation (‘04). He’s also collected an Oscar nomination and a movie deal. <more>

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Many don’t know this, but for nearly a century, Los Angeles has played a central role in the development of gospel music. The UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive and Heritage Music Foundation partnered in a collaborative project to document L.A. gospel music. <more>

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In a new spin on theater production by the Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance (REMAP), a Tony Award-winning UCLA theater professor used a modified video game engine to create the visuals for an experimental multimedia piece. <more>

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