Park Poor KCET’s SoCal Connected award-winning news series will air “Park Poor” on Friday, October 7, 2011, at 8:30 pm on your local KCET public television station. “Park Poor” will address park access and equal justice in Los Angeles, including Rio de Los Angeles State Park and the work of The City Project with Anahuak [...]

Vernice Miller-Travis, National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC), and Charles Lee, Deputy Associate Administrator for Environmental Justice, United States Environmental Protection Agency, do a site tour with The City Project at the Los Angeles State Historic Park, a historic environmental justice victory. The site tour included Baldwin Hills Park, the Los Angeles State Historic Park, [...]

New Report by PERE ally, The City Project, on park equity in Southern California . . . Healthy Parks, Schools and Communities: Green Access and Equity for Southern CaliforniaAuthors: Robert García, Executive Director, The City Project Seth Strongin, Director of Policy and Research, The City ProjectDownload and share the comprehensive Southern California report, as well as [...]

Carlos Rogel, Program Manager, Great Wall Restoration, with Judy Baca, Artistic Director, SPARC.  September 17, 2011, celebration of the restoration of the Great Wall. “SPARC . . . changed the way I spoke about ancestry, redefined what art’s role is in society and lit a fire in me to become an active participant in the [...]

From KCET Departures: KCET Departures invites you to participate in a StoryShare event at the Community Picnic Celebrating the Restoration of the Great Wall of Los Angeles. Take the opportunity to share your stories about the Great Wall, or how public murals have shaped your experiences in Los Angeles. Food trucks, music, poetry, and muralists [...]

The City Project is proud to present our policy report Healthy Parks, Schools and Communities: Green Access and Equity for Southern California. This report maps and analyzes park access and equity in nine counties in Southern California – Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, San Bernardino, Riverside, San Diego, Kern, Santa Barbara, and Imperial – using narrative [...]

SPARC’s Artistic Director Judy Baca and Project Manager Carlos Rogel restore the Great Wall of Los Angeles in the Los Angeles River. Click here to see the Slide Show and Photo Gallery of the Great Wall Restoration by The City Project. The Great Wall restoration is rich with meaning at many levels.  The Judy Baca [...]

Los Angeles (CNN) — For the first time in decades the Los Angeles River, once polluted and ridiculed, is open to kayakers and canoeists this summer under a federally authorized two-month program. Prior to now, the namesake river of the nation’s second largest city was too contaminated for public recreation and was deemed off-limits — [...]

The grand opening of Ascot Hills Park in East Los Angeles on June 25, 2011, is a victory by the people and for the people.  “[I]n East L.A. itself, the largest open space is Evergreen Cemetery, which basically sends a message to kids: ‘If you want open space, you have to die first,’ The City [...]