Urban Planning

​The bus is no fun
Stigma, smells, such craziness
I ride and I watch
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Camille Fink
University of California, Los Angeles
Dissertation Title: The Presentation of Self in Everyday [Transit] Life: An Ethnographic Study of Los Angeles Bus Culture
I’m using ethnographic fieldwork methods to document and understand the patterns of culture and behavior on public transit and the ways in which social order is both disrupted and maintained in these spaces. I’m also considering the relationships between this observed behavior and broader societal contexts and phenomena around issues of race, class, and gender (among other things). And, I carry a lot of antibacterial gel and hand wipes with me on the bus because I am a germ freak.