Best of the Best: ULI Announces Ten Winners of the 2006 Awards for Excellence: The Americas Competition
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Chief Facilities Executive Jim McConnell today announced that LAUSD was selected as a winner of the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) Awards for Excellence: The Americas competition. This award is widely recognized as [...]

New York Times
May 17, 2006
Strategies
To Revitalize a City, Try Spreading Some Mulch
By KEITH SCHNEIDER
CHICAGO
IN many ways, this city’s current fortunes are all about mulch. It’s everywhere. Bark mulch is spread in neat circles around the city’s trees; roughly 30,000 new trees are planted annually. Darker leaf mulch fills planters along State, Dearborn, Michigan and the [...]

Urban Park and Recreation Summit
National Recreation and Park Association
May 17-18, 2006
Chicago, Illinois
A convocation of big-city directors, civic leaders and advocates to examine the state of urban parks and recreation in America and to adopt a national action agenda.
Big-City Directors, Civic Leaders and Advocates Gather in Chicago to Launch a National Agenda for Urban Parks and [...]

This is the lead story on the homepage of the Los Angeles Times web site for May 10, 2006.
“This is part of an overall trend by which wealthy enclaves think they can simply take over public parks, public beaches, public trails. We’re not going to allow it.” Robert Garcia.
Hikers, Homeowners Are at Odds [...]

USA and Galaxy star Landon Donovan kicks the opening goal at the new Nike pitch.
Our client the Anahuak Youth Soccer Association headed by Raul Macias and the Center for Law in the Public Interest joined the community, soccer stars, and public officials to celebrate the opening of the new soccer pitch donated by Nike in [...]

Celebrating the Greening of the Los Angeles River
with Healthy Parks, Schools, and Communities

Bailando Down Olvera Street by Leo Limon
Honoring
Laura N. Chick
Los Angeles City Controller
Mary Nichols
Professor of Law
UCLA Institute
for the Environment
Carol Jacques
El Pueblo de Los Angeles Commission [...]