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Why It’s Called Miracle Mile: The Empty Fields A.W. Ross Turned Into LA’s First Linear Downtown
ByAndrew Walsh July 20, 2026July 31, 2026

I recently read a great book by David Ulin, former book editor of the Los Angeles Times whose accolades include a California Book Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles, he tackles the city’s unique history and urbanism in a way that really spoke to me, musing on the…

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Lost Victorian Streetscape: How Denver Erased Its 19th Century Commercial Districts
ByAndrew Walsh June 12, 2026July 20, 2026

By the 1880s, Denver’s 17th Street had established itself as the financial center of the region, earning it the nickname of the Wall Street of the Rockies. Major banking institutions, brokerage firms, and law firms lined the corridor, and the multi-story commercial buildings that housed them gave the street a dense, canyon-like character that was…

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