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For decades, communities of color and low-income communities across Los Angeles County have failed to receive adequate development, operations, and maintenance services to actualize an equitable built environment. While inadequate services to these communities are not exclusive to any one... Read More →

In honor of National Planning month, the APA Los Angeles Young & Emerging Planners (YEP) hosted a project showcase in Downtown LA on October 21, 2023. The goal of the event was to provide a platform for students and young and emerging planners to showcase the projects that they have been... Read More →

This is the third installment of a three-part series. “The Marshalls were close to their Japanese-American neighbors, particularly the Hoshizakis and the Kakibas, who lived on either side of them. Their daughter, Barbara Marshall, remembers food and culture being exchanged over the hedges of... Read More →

Imagine a natural disaster striking Los Angeles. The epicenter is Downtown. Tens of thousands of our neighbors are displaced across the county. The magnitude of the catastrophe means government aid is sluggish. People begin erecting tents on sidewalks. Years later, despite massive public... Read More →

John Yi is the Executive Director of Los Angeles Walks The Los Angeles civil unrest in 1992 upended so many of the norms for the Korean American community. Having immigrated here to build a life, my parents and their generations found years of labor gone overnight as Koreatown, abandoned by law... Read More →

Richard Willson, Ph.D., FAICP, Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Cal Poly Pomona   Right now, addressing the immediate prevention, health, and economic consequences of Covid-19 is everybody’s first priority. These near-term issues are likely taking most of your attention,... Read More →

Tamika L. Butler, Esq. is a land use, equity, environmental and social and racial justice advocate. She is the Principal at Tamika L. Butler Consulting.  This is really hard. Not just trying-to-think-of-the-last-time-a-whole episode-of-Saturday-Night-Live-was-good hard. Not just... Read More →

Planners of Los Angeles is a series of stories from APA Los Angeles members who are creating great communities for all. These are the stories of how they got where they are, who influenced them, and APA’s role in their careers.  We hope these stories help you see yourself in a variety of... Read More →

On June 28, 2019, a group of 41 stakeholders came together at Planning for Public Health: Taking Action Through Policy and Design, American Planning Association, Los Angeles Section (APA Los Angeles)’s first official event and foray into the national Plan4Health initiative.  Plan4Health is an... Read More →