The Los Angeles Times reports: One of California’s priciest beachfronts may become a little less exclusive after a judge sided with state coastal regulators fighting to build a public pathway next to an oceanfront Malibu mansion. In a ruling made public last week, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant upheld a 2009 [...]

The City Project presents the policy report Healthy Parks, Schools and Communities: Green Access and Equity for Ventura County, to promote equal access to parks and recreation and a quality education including physical education for all. Siga este enlace para ver este mensaje en Español. According to David Fukuzawa, Health Program Director, The Kresge Foundation: “Although [...]

The City Project (El Proyecto del Pueblo) presenta su reporte sobre política pública titulado Parques, Escuelas y Comunidades Saludables: Acceso Verde y Equidad en el Condado de Ventura, a través del cual busca promover que todos sus habitantes tengan acceso equitativo a los parques y otras actividades recreativas. Click here to see this message in [...]

The New York Times reports on the front page: As the summer season gets under way, budget-strapped state parks across the country are pursuing creative and sometimes controversial solutions simply to stay open. Many are imposing steep new fees, leaning ever more heavily on volunteers and, in one ominous effort to raise money, even pushing [...]

[O]ne of California’s most valuable economic assets [is] its outdoor riches. The state’s beaches, mountains and deserts offer more than just aesthetic beauty. They represent a vital economic engine that employs thousands of public workers, creates millions of private-sector jobs and generates billions of tax dollars. And now those outdoor resources may help pull the [...]

The Service Environment Out of a Lawsuit, a Park Grows: Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice Selected case study from Why Place and Race Matter For more than two decades, beginning in 1956, the Stringfellow Acid Pits in Riverside County were used as a dumping ground for about 34 million gallons of toxic waste—enough [...]

The Social Enviornment The City Project: Building a New Green Urban Movement Selected case study from Why Place and Race Matter Nearly two-thirds of the children who live in Los Angeles County have no park or playground nearby. Latino, Asian, and African American youth suffer most because existing parks are concentrated in predominantly white neighborhoods. Structural [...]

The head of the National Park Service came to Marin Tuesday morning to push a new agenda calling for open space to help nurture the nation’s physical and mental health. “The national parks are a major untapped source of public health,” declared Jon Jarvis, director of the National Park Service, at the Cavallo Point conference [...]

The City Project presents the policy report, Healthy Parks, Schools and Communities: Green Access and Equity for Los Angeles County 2011, to promote equal access to parks and recreation for all. Haga click aquí para ver este mensaje en Español. According to Anthony Iton, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., Senior Vice President, Healthy Communities, The California Endowment: The [...]

The City Project (El Proyecto del Pueblo)  presenta su reporte sobre política pública titulado Parques, Escuelas y Comunidades Saludables: Acceso Verde y Equidad en el Condado de Los Angeles 2011 a través del cual busca promover que todos sus habitantes tengan acceso equitativo a los parques y otras actividades recreativas. Click here to see this message [...]