Robert Nakamura
Robert Nakamura is a Professor of Political Science Emeritus from the Albany campus of the State University of New York. He has written on regulation, policy implementation, and democratization.
Updated May 2016
Stories from This Author
This Old House: A Tale of Japantown as a Hotspot for Historic Cultural Monument Status
May 12, 2016 • Robert Nakamura
We begin with an odd question. Should the Nakamura family house in Sawtelle (pictured above) be “involuntarily designated” a “historic-cultural monument” (HCM) and join the Griffith Park Observatory and a thousand sites on Los Angeles’ Declared Monuments List? That question was answered by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission on April 21, 2016. Our house is not unique. Sawtelle is a “hot spot” for potential monuments containing about half of all West LA’s potential sites: 38 other homes, businesses, and …
