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- Seniors and Parks: Identifying and Responding to the Elders’ Needs for Open Space
On this project: Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Lene Levy-Storms, Madeline Brozen
Research Area(s): Complete StreetsTwo 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 natural setting ( …
- Exploration and Implications of Multimodal Street Performance Metrics: What’s a Passing Grade?
On this project: Robin Liggett, Rui Wang, Madeline Brozen, Herbie Huff
Research Area(s): Complete Streets, Transportation20th Street in Santa Monica performance for bicyclists and pedestrians by different scoring mechanisms. 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 sch …
- Reclaiming the Right-of-Way: Parklets for Los Angeles
On this project: Madeline Brozen, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
Research Area(s): Complete Streets, TransportationConsidering 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 recent phenomenon, there is very …
- SCAG Bicycle Clearinghouse
On this project: Madeline Brozen, Norman Wong, ,
Research Area(s): Complete Streets, TransportationVisit the clearinghouse website at www.bikecounts.luskin.ucla.edu Bike Clearinghouse Training Webinar – August 21, 2015 What is the Bicycle Data Clearinghouse Project? This project seeks to compile, organize, make accessible, and create a data standard for bicycle count data collected in Los Angeles County. The project will collect existing data and create an interface for collecting future data, …
- Performance Measures for the City of Los Angeles
On this project: Madeline Brozen, Herbie Huff
Research Area(s): Complete Streets, Spatial Analysis GroupThis 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 to parks. These measures are grou …
- Seniors and Parks: Identifying Places to Build Parks for Community Elders
On this project: Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Madeline Brozen
Research Area(s): Complete Streets, Spatial Analysis GroupThis 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 open space need is determined by mapping concentrations of seniors …
- CicLAvia Evaluation
On this project: Madeline Brozen, Colleen Callahan, J.R DeShazo
Research Area(s): Complete Streets, TransportationBicyclists and patrons at a business along the CicLAvia routeCicLAvia 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 C …