The New Urbanism Film Festival, taking place this weekend (November 6-9), seeks to broaden the conversation about how we design our cities. Instead of preaching design principles in academic books, codes, and seminars, the festival’s creators use movies, animation, and webseries to show how urban design affects our everyday life. New Urbanism is about making [...]
As another step in the ever-evolving LA River revitalization efforts, the half-mile Zev Yaroslavsky LA River Greenway Trail, named in honor of the outgoing county supervisor, officially broke ground last Saturday in Studio City. Touted as an important “missing link” in the LA River Greenway, the new stretch from Whitsett Avenue to Coldwater Canyon will [...]
Mayor Eric Garcetti on Monday recognized city sanitation workers for switching from using paper maps to a smartphone app designed to help with daily route navigation and speed up responses to trash collection requests. The first of several Mayor’s Civic Innovation Awards that Garcetti plans to give to city departments was presented to the Bureau [...]
LA’s City Planning Department provides a bi-weekly Early Notification Report for Certified Neighborhood Councils. The purpose of this report is to provide Neighborhood Councils with the earliest possible information about all applications for planning entitlements that have been filed in your neighborhood, even though not all applications are complete and some cases may eventually be [...]
