Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Complete Streets

UCLA Advancing the Complete Streets Dialogue

By Gary Kavanagh | Mar 5, 2013 | 1 Comment

Last Thursday UCLA hosted its third annual Complete Streets Conference in Downtown Los Angeles. I was excited to have had the opportunity to attend with such a packed line up for the all day event, with a few big names in the mix including the esteemed Janette Sadik-Khan. During the opening presentation UCLA professor Anastasia […]

New Urbanists Are Open People and Other Lessons from the Congress for the New Urbanism

By Gary Kavanagh | May 11, 2012 | No Comments

This week, I’m attending the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), now in it’s 20th year and currently in West Palm Beach Florida from May 9th to 12th. This is my first time attending but CNU has long been influential to my thinking. Many of my books devoted to urban topics are written by prominent […]

Do I Look Suspicious to You? Livable Streets Starts with Equal Access to Streets

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 29, 2012 | 15 Comments

Mikey, Jonathan, and George were waiting for a friend just a few feet from the corner of Ave. 50 and York Blvd. in Highland Park when a police car pulled up. Two cops got out and told them to turn around, spread their legs, and put their hands behind their backs. The police proceeded to […]

“Complete Streets” Conference Wrap: Penalosa, Papandreou, Look to L.A.’s Future

By Lindsey Miller | Mar 5, 2012 | 1 Comment

The idea of “complete streets”—that is, streets designed with all users, not just cars, in mind—isn’t a new one, but it hasn’t caught on everywhere yet. On Friday, planners, engineers, advocates, and students convened at the second annual UCLA Complete Streets for California conference at the Kyoto Grand Hotel downtown to renew their excitement in […]

Streetsblog Profile: Public Health Advocate and UCLA Professor Richard Jackson

By Damien Newton | Feb 29, 2012 | 2 Comments

Episode 4: Searching for Shangri La – (preview) from MPC on Vimeo. (Jackson will be speaking as part of the UCLA’s Luskin Center for Innovation’s “Complete Streets Conference” this Friday. Tickets are sold out, and despite an earlier report they won’t be accepting walk-ins . If you check back here Monday for Streetsblog’s coverage. […]

“Model Street Manual” for L.A. County Will Be Presented on October 6

By Damien Newton | Sep 28, 2011 | 8 Comments

Back in March, Carter Rubin covered the kickoff of an interesting project, funded by the LA County Public Health’s RENEW Grant Program and the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, to create a new street manual for road construction and redesign in Los Angeles County. The Model Street Design Manual will be publicly unveiled on Thursday, […]

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