Introduction

The City Project is making California a better place to live, learn, work, and play, with equal justice, democracy, and livability for all.

We are implementing a new vision for the Los Angeles region: a comprehensive and coherent web of parks, playgrounds, schools, beaches, forests, and transportation that promotes human health and economic vitality, and reflects the diverse cultural urban landscape.

Our key strategies include: coalition building, public education, policy and legal advocacy outside the courts, multidisciplinary research and analyses, strategic media campaigns, creative engagement of opponents to find common ground, and impact litigation as a last resort.

The values at stake: making it possible for children to have the simple joys of playing in the park and school yard; improving health and recreation; core educational values of academic excellence and physical fitness; equal access to public resources; democratic participation in deciding the future of the community; economic vitality for all and local jobs for local workers; spiritual values in protecting people and the earth; providing the benefits of clean air, water, and ground in safe and healthy urban parks and green schools; and sustainable regional planning.