USC Dornsife News

The City of Angels is undergoing a renaissance that embraces the attributes it once spurned: verticality, density, public transport, pedestrian culture and public parks.

At USC Dornsife, we view stars differently. Join us as we explore the constellation of meanings these celestial bodies have in literature, physics, spatial sciences — and more.

Philip J. Ethington of history and political science stirs up more than spirits with his ambitious multimedia history Ghost Metropolis — he seeks to raise and answer complex questions about how Los Angeles came to be.