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2016-2017 in Review: A Message from Our Director

04 Jan 2018
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By Ashley Atkinson, AICP Director, APA Los Angeles (2016-2019) Earlier this week, I commenced my second term as Section Director by kicking off our first-ever strategic planning process. In the coming months, our Board will be working with a consultant to lay out a vision for the future of APA...
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A Report from the ASLA 2017 Annual Meeting

27 Nov 2017
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  By CivicSpark Fellows Jonathan Dolan & Jose Torres  The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) held their Annual Meeting and Expo October 20-23, 2017 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Two CivicSpark Water Action Fellows, representing the City of Culver City, were in...
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Planning for Healthy Communities: Putting Environmental Justice into General Plans

01 Nov 2017
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    By David Early and Tiffany Eng  Imagine a California of healthy and thriving communities, where urban and rural neighborhoods have the tools to help prevent and reduce industrial pollution, provide open space and local organic food, develop affordable housing, preserve local culture,...
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Next Forma Urbis: On Driverless Cars and the (near) Future of Los Angeles

23 Oct 2017
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by Andrea Pavia   The metaphor of the city as human body has endured since the Renaissance, sustained by master designers and theorists, to give sense and structure to the city’s different parts, their functions and interrelations.   Using this metaphor, we can understand the city’s...
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Planning for Health Event in Riverside

11 Oct 2017
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    By Richard Rojas On August 21, 2017, I had the privilege to attend the Planning for Health event as a representative of the APA Los Angeles Section Board. The event was hosted by the APA California Chapter, Planners4Health Initiative and California Chronic Disease Prevention project and...
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(Not So) Mean Streets

19 Jul 2017
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People not just cars: the ongoing transformation of Venice Blvd   By Nathan Cherry INTRODUCTION Although being a bike commuter in Los Angeles is not easy, I am surprised that more don’t do it. In a health obsessed culture, biking is great aerobic exercise, the weather is perfect, and most...
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Fundamentals in Urban Design: The Urban Boulevard

20 Jun 2017
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by Andrea Pavia   Recently, as part of my work as a consultant, I participated in a debate on a proposed Complete Streets initiative for a segment of Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena. Colorado Boulevard is a major street in the Los Angeles region, spanning about 20 miles and connecting...
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Summer in the City – Long Beach Edition

14 Jun 2017
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by Steve Gerhardt On June 3, more than 20 planners from Los Angeles and Orange County, with a few friends and family in tow, met at Alamitos Landing to kick off Summer in the City for 2017. June Gloom kept things cool as we headed out for the morning. We took a chartered Long Beach Transit bus...
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How to get By-Right Zoning right

08 May 2017
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by Karen Parolek Even though the California State legislature turned it down in its 2016 session, By-Right Zoning is getting a lot of buzz these days as a needed tool to help solve the affordable housing crisis many communities are facing. A zoning code is considered “by-right” if the approvals...
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