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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]