Recent Streetsblog LA posts about South LA

In an effort to show how transportation, open space, planning and other issues impact the health and character of a community, Streetsblog and The California Endowment teamed to bring Streetsblog’s coverage to a hyper-local level in Boyle Heights and South Los Angeles. Sahra Sulaiman is the Communities Editor for Streetsblog Los Angeles and is leading our coverage efforts in these communities. This page serves as a place to read Sahra’s and all of Streetsblog’s coverage of issues in South L.A. Contact Sahra at sahra[at]streetsblog.org or on twitter: @sahrasulaiman.

Got Arts?: South L.A. Weekend Happenings

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jul 25, 2014 | No Comments

When South L.A. does arts festivals, it does them right. Their efforts at community-building and/or place-making are almost always rooted in the history of the area and the experience of its people. And, as part of that experience includes the lack of traditional outlets for expression, both the events and the works are often infused […]

Lovely Art Installations Evoking Walking Placed in Hard-to-Walk-to Locations

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jul 18, 2014 | 2 Comments

What do someone’s shoes tell us about them? Some would argue quite a bit. Others would argue that you need to actually spend some time inhabiting someone else’s shoes in order to really understand who they are and the journey they’ve been on. Kim Abeles, the artist behind the “Walk a Mile in My Shoes” public art […]

Advocates Gather in Leimert Park to Hear about CicLAvia Route through South L.A. Planned for December

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jul 17, 2014 | No Comments

South L.A. residents and advocates gathered at the KAOS Network in Leimert Park last night to learn more about CicLAvia and how the 6-mile route planned through the area on December 7th, 2014, would affect the community. Staff from CicLAvia gave presentations explaining “ciclovias” and describing how the car-free, open streets events had first originated in […]

The DOGGR Days of Summer: DOGGR Seeks Public Comment on Proposed Fracking Regulations

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jul 9, 2014 | 5 Comments

It’s that time of year again. Time for the Division of Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources (DOGGR), the agency tasked with regulating the Oil & Gas industry, to once again skip the home to one of the largest urban oil fields in the U.S. on its listening tour. The occasion? DOGGR is seeking public comment […]

Am I Hallucinating?: Public Art Pieces Appear in South L.A.

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jun 27, 2014 | 3 Comments

After a depressing day of photographing South L.A.’s trashed streets, I thought I was hallucinating when I stumbled across a man-sized Rubik’s Cube. It seemed to have come out of nowhere. And, it didn’t do anything special besides sit on a corner. But, it seemed to have had an impact on the atmosphere around it. […]

Dead Spaces Make for Dead (and Unwalkable) Places

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jun 25, 2014 | 13 Comments

I’m feeling sorta trashy. Not in that way. I’ve just had trash on the brain lately. Even as L.A. is celebrated for moving toward being more walkable and livable, trash seems to be the one constant, particularly in lower-income areas. One of the reasons is that there is a lot of dead space in places […]

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