Lyra Kilston is a writer and editor in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in Icon, Time, Wired, Next City, and KCET’s Artbound, among other publications.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

Living for the City: Jane Jacobs’s “Vital Little Plans”
Lyra Kilston on Jane Jacobs's "Vital Little Plans," the recently released volume of the writer's shorter work....

Midcentury California Cohousing
Crestwood Hills is the only successful, large-scale, modern cooperative housing development in the western United States....

A Dinner Party That Serves Only Desserts
Contributor Lyra Kilston reviews Louise Sandhaus's "Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires & Riots: California & Graphic Design, 1936–1986."...

Designed for Impact
From "Vertigo" to the Dixie cup....
