With Los Angeles hosting multiple mega-events over the next three years, the community has been pushing for renewed investment in its community and economic resources.
This report provides insights into MacArthur Park’s physical and social landscapes in pursuit of intergenerational public spaces.
This thesis investigates how a queer and trans-led business in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, acts as a site of social infrastructure for low-income, immigrant, and LGBTQ+ communities.
Prepared for the Thai Community Development Center, this report outlines the current need for a Community Plan Implementation Overlay and highlights benefits a specific plan can bring.
Following the first parklet installation in San Francisco in 2010, cities across the United States and Canada have started installing parklets at an ever-increasing rate. This study examines a variety of effects of two Downtown Los Angeles parklets on their surrounding neighborhood.
Parklets are small public spaces created by converting parking spots into recreational areas for people. The city of Los Angeles installed its first parklets in early 2013, and this study seeks to examine the effect of these two parklets on their adjacent downtown community.
Older adults are a highly underserved group in regards to parks, despite the fact that scholars have found a “healing effect” and promotion of one’s physical and emotional well-being when spending time in natural settings.
The purpose of this report is to identify and to compile information about the needs and preferences of older adults in regards to open space and synthesize it in the form of design guidelines for senior-friendly open spaces in cities.
The goal of this evaluation report is to determine whether parklets, a relatively new streetscape improvement type, is an idea that works along Santa Monica’s Main Street corridor.
UCLA’s Data for Democracy in LA partnered with the Lewis Center to consider what’s up with parks, why they matter, and how they might better serve Los Angeles.
