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Our methods for measuring the economic impact of freeways are rooted in 1950s logic. A new report, "Divided by Design" from Smart Growth America, uncovers just how much they leave out. Co-author Beth Osborne says we tend to overestimate how much time and money we'll save on freeways. And we ignore the ways in which freeways can sometimes make trips longer. Notes: Read "Divided by Design." Watch an explainer on the value of time.

This weekend in the arts and culture in San Diego: San Diego Symphony's opening weekend at the Rady Shell; San Diego Black Arts and Culture District Music Festival; 'Twelfth Night of the Living Dead;' North Park Mini Book Fair; floral and ceramic art; live music and more.

Immigration advocates are concerned about the increasing use of invasion rhetoric ahead of the November election.

Shared spaces are the future of our common life in the city. During the modernist era a term public space was used to define such places but the constitution of them were much more based on local economic and anthropocentric criteria, which allowed a strong touristification of public spaces and their transformation into the places of the production of private capital. As the so popular business construction PPP (private public partnership) didn’t deliver to the community realities, needs and/or desires for people inhabiting stressed circumstances of the area. As Marjetica Potrč states “the communities imagine the future city as a network of neighbourhoods and neither group was interested in public space, but they were all interested in shared space, community space,” it is important to follow some of the main paradigms of the changing world to therefore make a new agreement that is not human centred. Decolonizing methodologies can change the perception of ownership into caretaker. The first step is a definition of a new vocabulary based on trust and creating a ritual of transition within structuring new relationships in space. Doc. dr. Boštjan Bugarič is an architect, researcher, curator, critic and editor. Since 2014 he has been an editor at the open source community Architectuul in Berlin. For the University of Primorska in Koper he coordinated the accreditation and established the Faculty of Built Environment (2008-13), where he took a position of the acting dean (2011 – 2013). In 2017 was a research collaborator at Faculty of Architecture Ljubljana. He is a professor at the Visual art and Design department at the Faculty of Pedagogy in Koper. He exhibited at the U3 Triennial of Contemporary Art in Slovenia in MSUM+ Ljubljana (2013). Since 2016 he has been coordinating the Architectuul’s associated partnership at the Future Architecture Platform. Architectuul is a member of the LINA research project. For more information visit: visarts.ucsd.edu

More than 150 high school students are teamed up to design solutions for critical problems in their community.

In 1996, Erik and Lyle Menendez were convicted and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. A Los Angeles judge is holding the first hearing to reexamine the case.

As part of the exhibition, "Over/Under: Woven Craft at Mingei" San Diego artist Yomar Augusto will be painting a large mural inside the Museum. Augusto's lyrical, linear paintings evoke woven forms, and visitors can watch Yomar paint the mural live in the Gallery. Born in Brasilia and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Augusto initially trained as a graphic designer before studying photography at the School of Visual Arts. He then started his own studio in Rio before completing a Masters in Type Design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, The Netherlands, then continued working in type, design, and art in both commercial and educational sectors. His projects have been presented worldwide, and he has taught at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, Bauhaus University in Weimar, and locally at San Diego State University. For more information visit: mingei.org Stay Connected on Facebook

Proposition 28 guaranteed funding for arts programs in K-12 public schools.

Don Norman, Distinguished Professor (emeritus) of Cognitive Science and Psychology, Founder and first Director of the Design Lab at the University of California, San Diego will discuss ideas from his new book, "Design for a Better World". Business Week has named Norman one of the world’s most influential designers. Email jpineda@ucsd.edu for zoom link.

Join the Athenaeum’s School of the Arts, in the Athenaeum's Logan Heights location, on January 21, at 2 p.m. to celebrate the publication of Ken Goldman’s book "Essential Human Anatomy for Artists." Ken is a legendary artist and instructor, having taught at the Athenaeum School of the Arts since 1986. According the publisher Quarto Books, this beautifully illustrated and organized book includes "in-depth discussions of the skeleton and study of the muscles, ... drawing demonstrations ... designed to help readers understand the various forms of the human body, [and] key information on movement and lighting." Related links: Athenaeum School of the Arts website | Instagram | Facebook