Woody Smeck, Superintendent, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, writes:
Dear Friends:
This past week former U.S. Senators J. Bennett Johnston, Jr. (D-La) and
Howard H. Baker (R- TN) announced they are convening a year-long, blue
ribbon commission to recommend policies for the National Park System in the
next century. The system will turn 100 in 2016. The commission (National
Parks [...]

Sarah Lorenzen, AIA, and Plasmatic Concepts produced The Los Angeles River Film. Sarah writes:
Our Los Angeles River Film is being screened at the Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival this weekend.
The film is part of a series of talks and films entitled “Sustainable L.A.”
Events will take place from noon until 10 pm.
There is also what should [...]

Agreement With Meruelo Maddux Comes Four Years After LAUSD Tried to Buy Taylor Yard Site for $27 Million
by Ryan Vaillancourt
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES
The Los Angeles Unified School District has agreed to pay $50 million to settle an eminent domain dispute with Meruelo Maddux Properties over a 23-acre Cypress Park site, Los Angeles Downtown News has learned.
The [...]

Resolution 8.04 - The Great Wall, the Heritage Parkscape, and Cultural and Historical Landmarks in Los Angeles
This Resolution was Approved By the National Latino Congreso on October 8, 2007, and amended July 19, 2008.
Whereas, the Great Wall of Los Angeles by Judy Baca and SPARC is one of the city’s great cultural landmarks and one [...]

The grand opening of the Los Angeles State Historic Park at the Cornfield on September 23, 2006. The site couuld have been warehouses. Instead, it’s a park. Activists and advocates galvanized community support to create the state park and stop 32 acres of warehouses. The Los Angeles Times called the victory “a heroic [...]

“It is the most important work of American art of the 19th century,” Sara Cedar Miller said.
She was referring to Central Park, not to the 3-foot by-8-foot pen-and-ink map over her shoulder. But the two are inseparable. The enormous map depicts “Greensward,” the plan by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux that won the park-design [...]

View images of the 28 acre site of Griffith Park on the East Bank of the Los Angeles River in Atwater Village — which could be the Next Great Urban Park in Los Angeles.
Central Service Yard Opportunity Site
Reclaiming Griffith Park’s Lost Acreage for Public Enjoyment
By Jeff Gardener and Bernadette Soter,
Members Griffith Park Master Plan Working [...]

Transit to Trails visited the Wishtoyo Foundation’s Chumash Demonstration Village Project in Malibu on April 26, 2008.

The Village will consist of the creation of an outdoor working Native American village on a four-acre site at Nicholas Canyon County Beach in Malibu, creating the only living Chumash cultural village of its kind in Southern California.
Transit to [...]