Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Parks

USC’s Planned Expansion in Boyle Heights: When Planning Objectives and Community Perceptions Collide

By Sahra Sulaiman | Aug 14, 2013 | 9 Comments

Taking a deep breath as he looked out over the crowd that had gathered in the gymnasium of Hazard Park to discuss USC’s planned expansion on its Health Sciences Campus, the lanky and earnest youth with the air filtration mask dangling from his belt made an appeal to the hearts of the USC representatives. “There’s […]

Friends of the Hollywood Central Park Challenge Us to Design Our Own Park

By Damien Newton | Jul 15, 2013 | 4 Comments

Friends of the Hollywood Central Park (FHCP), a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a 44-acre street-level park over the Hollywood Freeway in a densely populated and park-poor area of the city, launched a new facet of thir website today to encourage everyone to tap their inner architect and create their own dream park. You can […]

Parks, Hills, Homes, Boulevards, Centers, and Industry: a Concept to Integrate Land Use and Transportation Policies in Los Angeles

By Mark Vallianatos | Jun 11, 2013 | 4 Comments

(This is the first in a six part series that will run throughout the next two weeks. They’re all a little longer than our usual fare, so give yourself a couple of minutes to get all the way through. – DN) Can the stars align for a chance to redefine transportation and land use policies […]

Politicians Raise Awareness about Blight by Sticking their Signs on Every Vacant Lot in CD 9

By Sahra Sulaiman | May 3, 2013 | 3 Comments

If there is a lot in CD 9 that is vacant, foreclosed, abandoned, or in severe disrepair, you can bet either Ana Cubas or Curren Price (especially Price) has found it and stuck a sign on it, like this lot (above) on Broadway and 48th. Or this one just up the street, at 45th. Cubas’ […]

Clean-up Effort of a “Beauty Spot” Unearths a Strange History in Watts

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jan 28, 2013 | 1 Comment

When is a public park not open to the public? Or even a park? Apparently, when it is owned by the Department of Water and Power (LADWP). This little plot of land on the corner of 96th and Central Ave. in Watts was one of the many vacant lots that Ted Watkins helped turned into […]

Dear Santa: the 50 Parks Initiative is Great, but Please Bring South L.A. Some Green Space for Christmas

By Sahra Sulaiman | Dec 20, 2012 | No Comments

While hiking in Griffith Park, my friend remarked that he found it refreshing to be surrounded by so much wildlife. “What wildlife?” I hadn’t spotted any yet. “All the squirrels.” “The squirrels…?” Yes, the squirrels. A ubiquitous chattering presence in some areas of town, they are a rarer sight where my friend lives in South […]

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