Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Urban Design

Eco-Village’s Car Free Vision for Planned LAUSD Parking Lot

By Damien Newton | Apr 15, 2008 | 2 Comments

Last month the LA Eco-Village received some good news when the LAUSD announced that the location for their school on White House Place would not require the demolition of 40 homes in the Village forever altering the sustainable community that had been so carefully created. Tonight, the Eco-Village will present an alternative to LAUSD’s plan […]

A Lesson from Barcelona from 1859

By Damien Newton | Apr 2, 2008 | No Comments

A Map of the Barcelona of the Future from The Project for the Reform and Extension of Barcelona in 1859 In 1859, Ildefons Cerdá released an urban plan for the city of Barcelona called "The Project for the Reform and Extension of Barcelona" which called for expanding the city around what we would today call […]

Making the Connections in Chinatown

By Damien Newton | Mar 28, 2008 | No Comments

Livable Places is hosting a Community Workshop tomorrow, March 29, to give Angelenos living in and around Chinatown an update on the "Making Connections" project. Livable Places describes Making Connections as: …an urban planning and design project that will result in a plan with proposed bicycle and pedestrian connections to the Chinatown and Lincoln/Cypress Gold […]

Celebrating Bimini Place

By Damien Newton | Mar 20, 2008 | No Comments

Council President Eric Garcetti, department heads from the Department of Public Works, CALTRANS, LADOT and Metro joined the community surrounding Bimini Place and the Los Angeles Eco-Village to celebrate the completion of the East Hollywood Shared Street Project.

East Hollywood On The Move

By Damien Newton | Mar 14, 2008 | 2 Comments

The East Hollywood Neighborhood Council has layed out their vision for their future in a new video posted at You Tube. Despite a music choice that made me feel as though I were about to fight a Koopa Troopa, the video is a great watch because the Council envisions a future that includes growing their […]

Sylmar To City: No More Sprawl

By Damien Newton | Mar 12, 2008 | 4 Comments

A Bird’s Eye View of Sylmar Nearly 50 residents of the Sylmar community, located in the San Fernando Valleyattemded a community planning meeting sponsored by the LA Department of City Planning to deliver a message: Sylmar wants a change. Tired of the poor planning that has encouraged a seemingly random development pattern and has ignored […]

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