Sam Hall Kaplan

Sam Hall Kaplan is a distinguished print and broadcast journalist, author, and teacher, who has pursued parallel careers as an urban designer and planning strategist. He has been an Emmy award-winning reporter/producer for Fox Television News in Los Angeles, the design critic for the Los Angeles Times, an urban affairs reporter for The New York Times, and an editor of The New York Post, and contributor to popular and professional publications and broadcast outlets. His books include The Dream Deferred: People, Politics and Planning in Suburbia; the best-selling L. A. Lost and Found, an architectural history of Los Angeles; and the collection of essays L. A. Follies.

Articles

Alternative Realities and Counterfactual Enigmas: On Joseph Giovannini’s “Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde”
A challenging and compelling study of avant-garde architecture.
Sam Hall KaplanMar 14, 2022
- Art & Architecture
The Politics of Preservation in Los Angeles
Two very different new books on the project of historic preservation in Los Angeles.
Sam Hall KaplanJul 11, 2021
- Art & Architecture
An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles: Fully Revised 6th Edition
Sam Hall Kaplan surveys the revitalized "An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles" from Angel City Press.
Sam Hall KaplanJan 17, 2019
Tough-Love Urbanism: On Jeremiah Moss’s “Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul”
Sam Hall Kaplan commiserates with Jeremiah Moss, author of “Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul.”
Sam Hall KaplanSep 30, 2017
- Art & Architecture
- History

Sam Hall Kaplan

Articles

Alternative Realities and Counterfactual Enigmas: On Joseph Giovannini’s “Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde”

The Politics of Preservation in Los Angeles

An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles: Fully Revised 6th Edition

Tough-Love Urbanism: On Jeremiah Moss’s “Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul”