In the interview with LBREPORT.com's Joe Mello available on-demand below, Mr. Waldie discusses his work for the Getty Museum's Pacific Standard Time, his collaboration on two books with actress Diane Keaton and reflects on his critically acclaimed book Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir about the history of Lakewood, California.

Mr. Waldie, who taught at CSULB in the mid-1970's, began working for Lakewood City Hall in late 1977, serving as its Public Information Officer for roughly 19 years and retiring as Deputy City Manager in 2010. His works have also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine. He currently blogs about "Where We Are" on KCET.org.

On June 23 (1:30-4:00 p.m.), Mr. Waldie will co-moderate the panel discussion: The Nature of Place: From the Rancho's to the New Urban Scene as part of Rancho Los Alamitos' three part Conversations in Place 2013 series. Sunday's event will include Christopher Hawthorne (LA Times architectural critic, co-author of The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture; Greg Goldin, architectural critic, board member of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design and a contributor to Los Angeles Magazine & LA Weekly; and Allan Pullman AIA, founder and Michael Bohn, AIA, design director, of Studio One Eleven, Long Beach

Honorary co-chairs for the Rancho Los Alamitos' Conversations in Place 2013 series are former Gov. George Deukmejian and Gloria Deukmejian (who is a Foundation Trustee).

For ticket information and details on the 2013 Conversations in Place series, click here

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