Category: Program
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Reclaiming the Right-of-Way: Parklets for Los Angeles
Considering roads as public spaces presents an opportunity for decreasing the open space deficit in cities. For this reason, cities are turning to parklets—places that emerge from the low-cost conversion of small and underutilized residual spaces originally devoted to cars into places for the passive or active recreation of people. Because parklets are a relatively…
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Performance Measures for the City of Los Angeles
This project, conducted in partnership with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and Ryan Snyder Associates, seeks to measure the performance of the transportation system through a series of livability measures. The scope is not entirely limited to the transportation system, but the consequences therein and other measures of livability such as access…
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CicLAvia Evaluation
CicLAvia is the Los Angeles -regional branding for open streets events. At open streets events, streets are closed to motor vehicle traffic and tempoarily transformed into appealing public spaces for people to to walk, bicycle, skate and enjoy. Since 2013, the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, along with partners in the Luskin Center, the Fielding School…
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Exploration and Implications of Multimodal Street Performance Metrics: What’s a Passing Grade?
Watch the webinar This project analyzes new multimodal street performance metrics for transportation projects. Scholars and practitioners have developed these new performance metrics in recent years in an attempt to replace traditional automobile-based level of service (LOS) indicators. Many scholars and practitioners feel traditional LOS overemphasizes the free flow of automobile traffic while neglecting other…
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Seniors and Parks: Identifying and Responding to the Elders’ Needs for Open Space
Two reports now available: Placemaking for an Aging Population: Guidelines for Senior-Friendly Parks Parks for Seniors: Identifying Opportunity Sites in Los Angeles Project Description Senior citizens remain a highly underserved group in regards to parks. This despite the fact that studies find a positive relation between physical and emotional well-being and spending time in a…
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Seniors and Parks: Identifying Places to Build Parks for Community Elders
This project is a supplemental project to the Seniors and Parks: Identifying and Responding to the Elders’ Needs for Open Spaces. This effort is a spatial analysis focused project which uses GIS techniques to identify and map the need for open spaces for the elderly as well as opportunities for the development of such spaces. This…
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Title The State of Asian Pacific America – Transforming Race Relations: A Public Policy Report
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