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After the Fireworks, There is Still Fun to Be Had on Bikes This Weekend

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jul 3, 2013 | No Comments

Last July, the Peace, Love and Family ride took a couple hundred riders on a tour through some of the major corridors of South L.A. before returning to a festival at Manchester and Vermont to show people that the streets could be sites for recreation. The ride was a lot of fun, both for those […]

A Case for the Incorporation of Questions of Access Into Planning for Complete Streets

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jun 19, 2013 | 8 Comments

“David!” I yelled, gesturing at City Planning’s David Somers to come over and listen to what the residents playing cards in their yard were saying about the need for a stoplight at the intersection outside their front gate. Too many people had come crashing through it, they told me. And if it wasn’t their gate, […]

New Pentagon Mandate: Make Military Bases Livable, That’s an Order!

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 19, 2013 | No Comments

This article is the first in a series about the U.S. military’s new embrace of smart growth planning. “The largest redevelopment opportunity in the world is at the Department of Defense.” Rep. Earl Blumenauer wasn’t exaggerating when he uttered those words to an audience of smart-growth developers earlier this month. While U.S. DOT, the EPA, […]

Don’t Forget, Ride and Party with Streetsblog in NELA.

By Damien Newton | Jun 14, 2013 | 3 Comments

Don’t forget, we’re meeting tonight at 6:00 pm at the Flying Pigeon Bike Shop (3404 North Figueroa Street) for a #Fig4All tour of the planned bike expansion in the Northeast. Afterwards, we’ll pary, with a cake and ice cream dance party at the bike shop. Bray-Ali promises a dance contest, bicycle dismount contest and raffle […]

Residents Rally Today to Protest Closure of Yet Another Grocery in South L.A.

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jun 13, 2013 | 8 Comments

While Central Ave. celebrates a ground-breaking ceremony for a new Northgate supermarket today, residents in another part of South L.A. will gather to protest the closing of yet another Ralph’s. The shuttering of the supermarket located at King Blvd. and Western Ave., scheduled for June 21, marks the second loss of a Ralph’s in the […]

Integrating Land Use and Transportation III: Homes Zone

By Mark Vallianatos | Jun 13, 2013 | 1 Comment

Tuesday, Streetsblog introduced a six-part series by Mark Vallianatos looking at how city leadership can start truly integrating land use and transportation in the six geographic zones he outlined: parks, hills, homes, boulevards, center and industry. First, he outlined the series and wrote about parks. Yesterday, “The Hills” got it’s turn. Each section includes a “preffered […]

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