Category Archive: 'Olmsted Vision'
Monday, April 29th, 2013
National Park Service, Anahuak Youth Sports Association, and The City Project tour great parks in Los Angeles. Rio de Los Angeles State Park. David Szymanski, Superintendent, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, National Park Service, and Kate Kuykendall, Public Affairs Officer, join Raul Macias of Anahuak and Robert Garcia, Ramya Sivasubramanian, Lynnete Guzman, and Daphne [...]
Posted in Baldwin Hills, L.A. River, Olmsted Vision, Transit to Trails, Urban Parks Movement
Wednesday, April 10th, 2013
SoCal > Departures > Land of Sunshine > Green Justice > NPS Study Recommends Designation of San Gabriel and Santa Monica National Recreation Area. Síga este enlace para ver este mensaje en Español. Green Justice National Park Service Recommends Designation of San Gabriel and Santa Monica National Recreation Area by Robert Garcia on April 10, [...]
Posted in Bike, Diversifying Democracy, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Indigenous Values and Native American Sites, KCET Departures Green Justice, Olmsted Vision, San Gabriel Mountains Forever, Transit to Trails, Urban Parks Movement
Monday, April 8th, 2013
Residents constructed berms built from public beach sand at Broad Beach in 2005. Time was that Malibu’s celebrity-studded Broad Beach lived up to its name. Not anymore. In recent years, punishing winter storms and high tides have swept away much of the 1.1-mile oceanfront . . . . To protect their seaside showplaces, residents have piled [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Free the Beach!, Olmsted Vision, Transit to Trails, Urban Parks Movement
Thursday, September 6th, 2012
Click on the image to see the urban state parks video on YouTube. Los Angeles County has over 10 million people, a larger population than 42 states. Community advocates have fought to create great urban state parks in park poor communities disproportionately populated by people of color and low income people. Los Angeles State Historic [...]
Posted in Baldwin Hills, Clean Water, Diversifying Democracy, Economic Stimulus, Fun in the Park, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, L.A. River, Olmsted Vision, Urban Parks Movement
Monday, April 16th, 2012
In 1930, the firm started by the sons of the great landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted proposed a comprehensive and coherent network of parks, playgrounds, schools, beaches, forests, and transportation to promote the social, economic, and environmental vitality of Los Angeles and the health of its people. According to the Olmsted Report in words that [...]
Posted in Fun in the Park, Monuments: Diversity, Democracy and Freedom, Olmsted Vision
Friday, February 24th, 2012
“On a deserted railroad yard north of Chinatown, one of Los Angeles’ most powerful and tenacious real estate developers, Ed Roski, Jr., met his match,” reported Jesus Sanchez in a front page article in the L.A. Times, on how activists fought city hall and prevailed.
Posted in Bike, Clean Water, Diversifying Democracy, Economic Stimulus, Fun in the Park, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Indigenous Values and Native American Sites, Infrastructure Justice, KCET Departures Green Justice, L.A. River, Monuments: Diversity, Democracy and Freedom, Olmsted Vision, Urban Parks Movement
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
The City Project and diverse allies have submitted public comments to the National Park Service (NPS) in support of the proposed national recreation area to bring the San Gabriel Mountains closer to the people – and take the people to the mountains. View of the San Gabriel Mountains from the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area. [...]
Posted in Bike, Clean Water, Diversifying Democracy, Economic Stimulus, Fun in the Park, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Indigenous Values and Native American Sites, Infrastructure Justice, KCET Departures Green Justice, Monuments: Diversity, Democracy and Freedom, Olmsted Vision, San Gabriel Mountains Forever, The City Project, Transit to Trails, Urban Parks Movement
Thursday, February 9th, 2012
Paco Serrano, a Highland Park youth advocate with the Anahuak Youth Sports Association, will drive three hours to go hiking and camping in Lake Isabella in the heart of the Kern River Valley, but he has never been to the Angeles National Forest or the San Gabriel Mountains, less than an hour away.
Posted in Bike, Clean Water, Diversifying Democracy, Fun in the Park, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Indigenous Values and Native American Sites, Infrastructure Justice, KCET Departures Green Justice, Monuments: Diversity, Democracy and Freedom, Olmsted Vision, San Gabriel Mountains Forever, The City Project, Transit to Trails, Urban Parks Movement
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
I am a civil rights attorney. I have represented people on Death Row, helped free Geronimo Pratt, the former Black Panther leader, from prison after 27 years for a crime he did not commit, prosecuted public corruption and international drug trafficking conspiracies, and litigated international banking cases against Iran.
Posted in Baldwin Hills, Clean Water, Diversifying Democracy, Economic Stimulus, Free the Beach!, Fun in the Park, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Heritage Parkscape, Indigenous Values and Native American Sites, Infrastructure Justice, KCET Departures Green Justice, L.A. River, Map Justice, Monuments: Diversity, Democracy and Freedom, Olmsted Vision, San Gabriel Mountains Forever, Schools and Communities, The City Project, Transit to Trails, Urban Parks Movement
Monday, January 23rd, 2012
Agenda January 25, 2012, 3:30 to 5:00 The Next Generation of America’s Parks: New Models and Opportunities (download summary) (additional resources) Our National Park System is dynamic, it evolves as America evolves. It celebrates our past with places like the Lincoln Memorial, Statute of Liberty, and Independence Hall. It preserves our amazing natural wonders like [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Fun in the Park, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Infrastructure Justice, Olmsted Vision, Transit to Trails, Urban Parks Movement
