The purpose of this appendix is to help readers further explore similarities and differences in seven station areas ( Van Nuys, Fillmore, Wilshire/Vermont, Culver City, Leimert Park, Compton, and Paramount/Rosecrans) and to be inspired to consider how different features shape neighborhoods around rail stations throughout Los Angeles County.
This brief provides a short history of how transit and land development have often gone hand-in-hand in L.A., summarizes research that shows that residential density in greater L.A. is still influenced by long-gone streetcar routes, and recommends ways to achieve greater synergies between housing and public transit investments.
This brief explores why and how jurisdictions in the Los Angeles region should zone for more diverse-types of lowrise housing, especially near transit.
This is a summary of a report that provides a conceptual framework for thinking about how more people can live and work near transit, near the major regional investments that county residents are paying for, in ways that maximize social benefits and minimize social costs.
This study assesses how community members of Jordan Downs perceive issues of the built environment, and how these perceptions may influence their transportation mode choice.
This study assesses how community members of Jordan Downs perceive issues of the built environment, and how these perceptions may influence their transportation mode choice.
Movements to include youth participation in the planning process have increased over time, and programs exist that are helping k-12 children gain both the knowledge and skills to advocate for the world that they want to see in the future.
This study aimed to evaluate Rosewood elementary school's urban planning curriculum to develop a toolkit and recommendations based on the challenges that Rosewood teachers faced.
A toolkit for elementary-school teachers to introduce concepts of urban planning in the classroom.
This research brief focuses on Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area to examine the relationship between commercial gentrification and fixed rail transit, transit ridership and traffic crashes.
