Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Urban Design

The Other Lesson of Our #LA2050 Listens Events. We Need to Get Younger People More Involved.

By Damien Newton | May 13, 2014 | 1 Comment

Wider sidewalks, bike paths, fewer car lanes, park space. These were some of the ideas that Scarlet, a participant in James Rojas’ interactive workshop focused on thinking of a new design for North Figueroa Street, presented to the group. The eight-year-old was the team leader for one of two tables set up for the workshop, […]

Caltrans on the Hot Seat: Assembly Looks at State, Local Planning Tensions

By Melanie Curry | Mar 5, 2014 | 1 Comment

It was the California State Assembly’s turn to review the recent State Smart Transportation Initiative (SSTI) report on Caltrans at a Transportation Committee hearing Monday. The discussion played out along the same lines as the Senate Transportation Committee hearing last month, where Professor Joel Rogers, who led the team that produced the report for the California Transportation […]

Connecting the Dots: VerdeXchange/FutureBuild Conference Looks at the Sustainable Los Angeles of Tomorrow

By Roger Rudick | Jan 29, 2014 | No Comments

Mayor Eric Garcetti spoke during a lunchtime plenary at the VerdeXchange/FutureBuild, a conference on sustainability, business and public policy, on Tuesday at the L.A. Hotel Downtown on Figueroa. He urged all departments in the city to look at everything through a lens of environmentalism. “Los Angeles had a sustainable past, going all the way back […]

Long Beach Development Could Redefine Mixed-Income, Senior Living

By Brian Addison | Oct 24, 2013 | 2 Comments

Contemporary. Hip. Accessible. Vibrant. Artistic. These are usually not the words associated with affordable housing, let alone senior affordable housing. But that is precisely what Studio One Eleven and Meta Housing Corporation aimed for when they were handed the design and development keys to a collection of land parcels sitting at Anaheim and Long Beach […]

Make Older Concrete Buildings Safer by Allowing Better Uses

By Mark Vallianatos | Oct 16, 2013 | 2 Comments

The Times’ reporting on the vulnerability of pre-1976 concrete buildings to future earthquakes has exposed pockets of risk scattered throughout Los Angeles. Proponents of requiring retrofits of vulnerable buildings in the 1990s were right. Human life is more valuable than the money of building owners. These older buildings should be strengthened one way or the other. […]

The Looming Disaster of the Hyperion-Glendale Bridges Re-Design

By Damien Newton | Sep 27, 2013 | 6 Comments

Earlier this week, Streetsblog published an article about how the Hyperion-Glendale Complex of Bridges Rehabilitation Project was giving short shrift to bicyclists and pedestrians and everyone that lived in the area. At the time, based on information provided to us by the Bureau of Engineering, I assumed that the issue could be resolved by arguing […]

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