Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Downtown LA

Streetscast: Emily Gabel Luddy

By Damien Newton | Aug 20, 2009 | 4 Comments

Emily (on the right) with Eco-Village Founder Lois Arkin In 2006, the City of Los Angeles opened the Urban Design Studio in the Planning Department to create what the LA Downtown News referred to as "Special Places" but what Streetsbloggers would call Livable Streets. Basically the studio, which currently consists of two full-time staff members […]

Re-Imagining Chinatown Exhibit Opens Downtown

By Damien Newton | Aug 13, 2009 | No Comments

(Longtime readers will remember that Streetsblog has covered many of James Rojas’ efforts to explain planning and get people to use their imagination when thinking about the future of transportation. In the past, we’ve covered a fraction of Rojas’ interactive planning workshops "Pushing Planning Boundaries in Santa Monica," "A Future without Cars,"and "the Interactive Downtown […]

Who Teaches the Teachers?

By Damien Newton | Aug 5, 2009 | 8 Comments

Photo of a BID Bike crushed in a crosswalk sent after this story was first published by Stephen Box. Public Safety officials continually lecture cyclists about the need to follow not just the letter of the law, but also to follow proven safety tips to stay safe during their rides. However, during a recent trip […]

Human Transit: Should L.A. Develop Like Paris or N.Y.?

By Damien Newton | Jul 24, 2009 | 18 Comments

Photo of Downtown L.A.: David Galvan/Flickr For a decade Los Angeles has tried to build-up it’s urban core in an effort to densify and change the character of the city from its sprawling reputation to a more traditionally urban one. However, instead of modeling its growth after that of New York, a pattern formerly referred […]

Downtown Streetcar Project Opens Website, Seeks Feedback

By Damien Newton | Jul 10, 2009 | 34 Comments

A street car on Tornoto’s King Street. Photo: Kevinseanw/Flickr Activist and blogger Eric Richardson, and indeed the whole Blogdowntown team so some extent, have been heavily involved in advocating for bringing streetcars back to Los Angeles on Broadway and beyond. Thus, it’s little surprise that Richardson has the scoop on L.A. Streetcar Inc.’s new website […]

City Hosts Car-Free Party for Second Time in Three Weeks

By Damien Newton | Jul 7, 2009 | 3 Comments

Photo: Blogdowntown It may not have drawn the crowds that were expected, but for the second time in three weeks the City of Los Angeles shut down part of its Downtown street grid for an outdoor party and the world didn’t end. If the city is willing to spend $4 million for police presence and […]

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