by Patricia Quintero Estades Oh it is magical! In the Disney movie Enchanted, a twist on the traditional fairy tale, Giselle is pushed out of her fairy-tale world into modern-day New York City where a divorce attorney Robert and his daughter take her in. After spending a night in their NYC Read more…
by Justine Dodgen Those who commute through downtown may have noticed the construction underway in the Arts District. The City of Los Angeles is busy creating alternative routes in preparation for the imminent rebuilding of the Sixth Street Viaduct, the iconic bridge in downtown L.A. that has been the backdrop of many Read more…
by Jeremy Loudenback The Los Angeles River presents an intoxicating vision of change for Los Angeles A much-anticipated plan for the river would do more than just remove the concrete channel that for a long time erased the waterway from public memory. The 2007 Los Angeles River Revitalization Plan imagines Read more…
By SELENA NG Originally posted by The Daily Trojan, March 26, 2015 The Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Public Enterprise hosted a panel discussion on the government and nonprofit sector efforts in revitalizing the Los Angeles River on Thursday night. The panelists in attendance discussed the various projects involved Read more…
by Frank Zerunyan originally posted on PUBLICCEO, March 24, 2015 On June 28, 2011, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law two bills that effectively dissolved all California Redevelopment Agencies (RDAs). Through the California Redevelopment Association and the League of California Cities, local governments challenged the constitutionality of the two laws (ABx1 Read more…
March 26, 2015 Panelists: Renee Dake Wilson, Vice President, Los Angeles City Planning Commission Carol Armstrong; LA River Works Omar Brownson, Executive Director, Los Angeles River Corp. Mia Lehrer, President, Mia Lehrer Landscape Architects Army Corp of Engineers (invited) The 51 mile long LA River is due to be transformed from Read more…
Historically, as the river flooded and meandered across the floodplain, the watershed boundary redefined itself. Originally the river ran through a broad alluvial floodplain, the result of meandering dendritic flows that constantly redefined and disturbed the landscape and its ecologies…as late as 1872 a coast guard survey shows a continuous series of tidal estuaries, lagoons, mudflats and salt marshes from the mouth of the Los Angeles River east to the San Gabriel River.
David Fletcher, author Flood Control Freakology
by Jeremy Loudenback Last year, when the Army Corps of Engineers signed off on a $1.08 billion plan to revitalize an 11-mile stretch of the Los Angeles River, momentum for the project turned from a trickle into a swift current of expectations. Though a modest “back to basics” message has been Read more…