Category Archive: 'Heritage Parkscape'
Monday, April 15th, 2013
If you haven’t voted yet, please VOTE NOW to help The City Project win $100,000 in the LA2050 challenge so Angelenos can discover L.A.’s forgotten landmarks! With your vote, The City Project will be one step closer to creating an interactive online guide and user-friendly smartphone app that maps city, state, and national cultural and historic landmarks in [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Heritage Parkscape, Indigenous Values and Native American Sites, KCET Departures Green Justice, Monuments: Diversity, Democracy and Freedom, The City Project
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
Vote for The City Project to Discover L.A.’s Landmarks in My LA2050 challenge! With your vote, The City Project will be one step closer to creating an interactive online guide and user-friendly smartphone app that maps city, state, and national cultural and historic landmarks in Los Angeles County with photos and content about each site’s [...]
Posted in Heritage Parkscape, Map Justice, Monuments: Diversity, Democracy and Freedom, The City Project
Friday, March 15th, 2013
On March 14, 2013, legislators reintroduced a bill to authorize the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries building on the National Mall as the designated location of the proposed Smithsonian American Latino Museum. The bipartisan legislation has support from both Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. “We are in a new era [...]
Posted in Heritage Parkscape, Monuments: Diversity, Democracy and Freedom
Friday, March 15th, 2013
Chicano Park and the Chicano Park Monumental Murals in San Diego are now officially recognized as national treasures! Join San Diego Mayor Bob Filner and community members at a press conference at Chicano Park on Friday, March 15 at 11:30 a.m. The City of San Diego will be announcing the placement of Chicano Park and [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Heritage Parkscape, Indigenous Values and Native American Sites, Monuments: Diversity, Democracy and Freedom, Public Art, Urban Parks Movement
Saturday, February 23rd, 2013
Los Angeles reached a benchmark half a century ago when the City Council’s first African American was appointed to represent the area then known as South Central. Gilbert Lindsay, a former cotton field worker and city janitor, was chosen in 1963 to fill a vacant seat in the 9th Council District, which covered part of [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Heritage Parkscape
Thursday, January 10th, 2013
SoCal > Departures > Land of Sunshine > Green Justice > Santa Monica Mountains for All: Expanding the Largest Urban National Park for Green Justice by Ramya Sivasubramanian The Santa Monica Mountains are L.A.’s backyard, but for children of color living in poverty with no access to a car, they may as well be worlds away. Expanding the largest urban national park in the [...]
Posted in Fun in the Park, Health and Equality, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Heritage Parkscape, KCET Departures Green Justice, Monuments: Diversity, Democracy and Freedom, San Gabriel Mountains Forever, The City Project, Transit to Trails, Urban Parks Movement
Friday, December 7th, 2012
We ask you to make a year end contribution to support equal justice, democracy and livability for all. Thanks to your support, The City Project is celebrating our second decade. In the past year alone we have enjoyed remarkable victories with diverse allies to define access to parks and recreation as an environmental justice issue, [...]
Posted in Baldwin Hills, Diversifying Democracy, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Heritage Parkscape, L.A. River, Monuments: Diversity, Democracy and Freedom, San Gabriel Mountains Forever, Schools and Communities, The City Project, Urban Parks Movement
Thursday, November 8th, 2012
Southern California Panel Robert García, Founding Director and Counsel, The City Project “Baldwin Hills Park in Los Angeles” 2:00-4:15 pm Click here to register for the 2012 ELJ Symposium on California’s Urban Wildlands. For more information email Conference Director Professor Paul Kibel at pkibel@ggul.edu. Click to read about The City Project’s advocacy for health and environmental justice [...]
Posted in Baldwin Hills, Health and Equality, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Heritage Parkscape, L.A. River, The City Project, Urban Parks Movement