Category Archive: 'Olmsted Vision'
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
Friday, April 8th, 2011
Hundreds of years ago, the Los Angeles Basin’s river and tributaries sat at the center of daily life for our first ancestors, the Tongvas Indians. They understood the river’s changing, mercurial nature and built their homes and town centers above its flood plains. Yangna, sitting just a few miles from the river near Spring Street, [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Economic Stimulus, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Heritage Parkscape, Indigenous Values and Native American Sites, L.A. River, Olmsted Vision, Transit to Trails, Urban Parks Movement
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
The City Project presents the policy report, Healthy Parks, Schools and Communities: Green Access and Equity for Los Angeles County 2011, to promote equal access to parks and recreation for all. Haga click aquí para ver este mensaje en Español. According to Anthony Iton, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., Senior Vice President, Healthy Communities, The California Endowment: The [...]
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, Transit to Trails, Transportation Justice, Urban Parks Movement
Wednesday, April 6th, 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 Los Angeles 2011 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 [...]
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, Transit to Trails, Transportation Justice, Urban Parks Movement
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
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, Urban Parks Movement
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
City of Los Angeles officials promised to complete Ascot Hills Park in park poor east L.A. by March 2011, but the park is nowhere near finished. It has been 261 days since the second “grounbreaking” in June 2010, 1,947 days –over five years in the life of a child — since Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Fun in the Park, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Infrastructure Justice, Olmsted Vision, Urban Parks Movement
Friday, January 21st, 2011
Seth Strongin, Policy and Research Manager at The City Project, published the following Letter to the Editor in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune about the San Gabriel Mountains Forever For All: Bill benefits all By protecting land in the San Gabriel Mountains, Rep. Dreier’s bill will benefit everyone in Southern California. Ensuring that all people [...]
Posted in Diversifying Democracy, Economic Stimulus, Fun in the Park, Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities, Indigenous Values and Native American Sites, Infrastructure Justice, Olmsted Vision, Transit to Trails, Urban Parks Movement
