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Expanded CicLAvia Takes Place on October 9!

CicLAvia is the best way to experience Living Streets now, join the fun on Sunday, October 9. Click here to go to the official website.      

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Redesigning Our Streets Event – March 15

SAVE-THE-DATE “Redesigning Our Streets: A Manual for Healthy, Livable Communities” Download the PDF with the Event Information Come see our national team of experts report on their model design manual for living streets. DATE: March 15, 2011 TIME: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Reception at 6:30 pm LOCATION: 3rd Floor Gateway Building Board Room One [...]

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Give Us Your Ideas For the York Living Streets Project

Living Streets LA is excited to be partnering with Los Angeles City Councilmember Jose Huizar on the York Living Streets project. Our team will be working with the community to create an action plan and to build small-scale living streets projects–such as streetside mini-plazas, bike features, pedestrian landscaping, neighborhood art and more. The focus will [...]

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Seeing LA in a New Way at CicLAvia

On Sunday tens of thousands of Angelenos discovered what life in LA is like without cars. People rode through neighborhoods they never knew, saw architecture they never noticed, connected with all kinds of other people and had lots of fun doing it. Spirits were high as people talked to strangers, listened to music, negotiated for [...]

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SCI-Arc Exhibits Cleantech Corridor Winners through October 27

Public spaces including living streets are central to the winning entries in this design competition that asked entrants to envision forward thinking strategies for the redevelopment of a four mile corridor along the L.A. River.  I attended the jury discussion at the opening of the exhibit on Saturday and would urge anybody interested in the [...]

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Primeros pasos en Boyle Heights/First steps in Boyle Heights

I joined the Living Streets: Boyle Heights Initiative as its Coordinator at the end of July, and began my work by meeting with our local community organization partners, as well as with members of the project teams for the funded improvements. In meeting with leaders from the East Los Angeles Community Corporation (ELACC) and Union [...]

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CicLAvia Coming to Boyle Heights on 10/10/10

CicLAvia is coming to Boyle Heights on 10/10/10 We are excited that CicLAvia has chosen to include portions of East 4th Street in Boyle Heights as part of its route.  We look forward to collaborating with CicLAvia to demonstrate some people friendly uses of the street on October 10. Undiscovered America mural on 4th – [...]

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CicLAvia Takes Place on 10/10/10!

We are very excited about the first CicLAvia on October 10, 2010.  Experience LA’s streets in a different way!  Click on the image to sign up and for a link to their official website!

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Update – August 24 ‘Pilot Streets’ Meeting

Join L.A. City Planning Commission President Bill Roschen, Living Streets LA, Pacoima Beautiful, Niall Huffman, and ACCION Westlake, the new Westlake Community Design Center to find out about creative pilot projects in the works to transform L.A.’s streets into people friendly places. Come share your ideas and get involved! When – 6:00 – 8:30 PM [...]

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UK Living Streets Project Video

Take a gander at this Streetfilm documenting a very cool project from England that has a lot in common with what the Living Streets Campaign is starting to do in Los Angeles. The project has a great deal of local community input on how streets are designed, and comes up with great solutions for making things [...]

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