Category Archive: 'Olmsted Vision'
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
[O]ne of California’s most valuable economic assets [is] its outdoor riches. The state’s beaches, mountains and deserts offer more than just aesthetic beauty. They represent a vital economic engine that employs thousands of public workers, creates millions of private-sector jobs and generates billions of tax dollars. And now those outdoor resources may help pull the [...]
Posted in Baldwin Hills, Diversifying Democracy, Economic Stimulus, Free the Beach!, Fun in the Park, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Indigenous Values and Native American Sites, Infrastructure Justice, L.A. River, Map Justice, Monuments: Diversity, Democracy and Freedom, Olmsted Vision, Public Art, Transit to Trails, Urban Parks Movement
Friday, May 13th, 2011
California State Parks Foundation writes: Earlier today, the Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) released a list of 70 state parks that will be permanently closed to the public as a direct result of the $22 million budget cut enacted by Governor Jerry Brown and the Legislature earlier this year. Although closure lists have been [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Economic Stimulus, Fun in the Park, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Indigenous Values and Native American Sites, Olmsted Vision, Urban Parks Movement
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
The Service Environment Out of a Lawsuit, a Park Grows: Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice Selected case study from Why Place and Race Matter For more than two decades, beginning in 1956, the Stringfellow Acid Pits in Riverside County were used as a dumping ground for about 34 million gallons of toxic waste—enough [...]
Posted in Baldwin Hills, Clean Water, Diversifying Democracy, Economic Stimulus, Free the Beach!, Fun in the Park, Health and Equality, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Heritage Parkscape, Infrastructure Justice, L.A. River, Map Justice, Monuments: Diversity, Democracy and Freedom, Olmsted Vision, Public Art, Schools and Communities, The City Project, Transit to Trails, Transportation Justice, Urban Parks Movement
Monday, May 9th, 2011
Posted in Clean Water, Diversifying Democracy, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, L.A. River, Olmsted Vision, Public Art, Urban Parks Movement
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
The City Project (El Proyecto del Pueblo) presenta su reporte sobre política pública titulado Parques, Escuelas y Comunidades Saludables: Acceso Verde y Equidad en el Condado de San Bernardino a través del cual busca promover que todos sus habitantes tengan acceso equitativo a los parques y otras actividades recreativas. Click here to see this message in English. [...]
Posted in Clean Water, Diversifying Democracy, Economic Stimulus, Fun in the Park, Health and Equality, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Indigenous Values and Native American Sites, Infrastructure Justice, Map Justice, Monuments: Diversity, Democracy and Freedom, Olmsted Vision, Public Art, Schools and Communities, Transit to Trails, Transportation Justice, Urban Parks Movement
Thursday, April 28th, 2011
The Social Enviornment The City Project: Building a New Green Urban Movement Selected case study from Why Place and Race Matter Nearly two-thirds of the children who live in Los Angeles County have no park or playground nearby. Latino, Asian, and African American youth suffer most because existing parks are concentrated in predominantly white neighborhoods. Structural [...]
Posted in Baldwin Hills, Clean Water, Diversifying Democracy, Economic Stimulus, Free the Beach!, Fun in the Park, Health and Equality, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Heritage Parkscape, Indigenous Values and Native American Sites, Infrastructure Justice, L.A. River, Map Justice, Monuments: Diversity, Democracy and Freedom, Olmsted Vision, Public Art, Schools and Communities, The City Project, Transit to Trails, Transportation Justice, Urban Parks Movement
Monday, April 18th, 2011
Click on the image to see more pictures of the Earth Day Camp Out beneath a full moon and Walkathon at Los Angeles State Historic Park and Rio de Los Angeles State Park along the Los Angeles River.
Posted in Clean Water, Diversifying Democracy, Economic Stimulus, Fun in the Park, Health and Equality, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Heritage Parkscape, Indigenous Values and Native American Sites, Infrastructure Justice, L.A. River, Monuments: Diversity, Democracy and Freedom, Olmsted Vision, Public Art, Schools and Communities, Transit to Trails, Transportation Justice, Urban Parks Movement
Friday, April 15th, 2011
An 8.5-mile stretch of creek that used to free flow with the flood waters, Compton Creek has since been channelized into a tributary of the Los Angeles River by the Army Corps of Engineers. Once used as a kind of dumping ground, the creek and its wetlands used to be destroyed with waste and other [...]
Posted in Clean Water, Diversifying Democracy, Economic Stimulus, Fun in the Park, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Heritage Parkscape, L.A. River, Olmsted Vision, Transit to Trails, Urban Parks Movement
Monday, April 11th, 2011
The head of the National Park Service came to Marin Tuesday morning to push a new agenda calling for open space to help nurture the nation’s physical and mental health. “The national parks are a major untapped source of public health,” declared Jon Jarvis, director of the National Park Service, at the Cavallo Point conference [...]
Posted in Clean Water, Diversifying Democracy, Economic Stimulus, Free the Beach!, Fun in the Park, Health and Equality, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Indigenous Values and Native American Sites, Infrastructure Justice, L.A. River, Map Justice, Monuments: Diversity, Democracy and Freedom, Olmsted Vision, Public Art, Transit to Trails, Transportation Justice, Urban Parks Movement
Monday, April 11th, 2011
Twenty-seven bridges span the entirety of the Los Angeles River from the San Bernardino Valley down to Long Beach, fourteen of which are within the Los Angeles city limits. Built in a less than three decades between 1909-1938, the bridges represent a significant time period for Los Angeles, when the combination of a population explosion [...]
Posted in Clean Water, Diversifying Democracy, Economic Stimulus, Fun in the Park, Health and Equality, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Heritage Parkscape, L.A. River, Olmsted Vision, Urban Parks Movement
