Los Angeles Times

An Exposition of civic issues

Big changes are coming to Exposition Park. The Endeavour space shuttle, NASA announced last month, will be moving to the California Science Center campus -- though not to Frank Gehry’s cramped 1984 ...
The New York Times

When the World’s Fair Came Tumbling Down

The Panama-Pacific International Exposition was held in San Francisco in 1915. After it ended, the fair’s temporary structures had to be razed. By John Otis In 1915, San Francisco held the World’s ...
Los Angeles Times

Column: What does building George Lucas’ museum at Exposition Park say about L.A.?

“The erosion of Exposition Park’s public open space continues.” So wrote urban planner Alan Loomis nearly 15 years ago, in an essay published by the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

California Pacific International Exposition in Balboa Park closed 85 years ago

Eighty-five years ago the California Pacific International Exposition officially came to an end. The 1935-1936 expo in San Diego’s Balboa Park opened as a grand carnival on May 29, 1935, and closed on ...