Events

Metro to Update Community on Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor Light Rail Project

Richard D. Thorpe, CEO of Exposition Construction Authority will be the next speaker at the Coalition meeting on Tuesday, July 26. No charge to join us.

Join Van Alen Institute at the Caltrans Headquarters in downtown Los Angeles  for a presentation of winning entries from the Life at the Speed of Rail competition and a conversation about the role of design in California’s high-speed rail future.

The New Normal: Public Private Partnerships in Real Estate, Presented by the Urban Land Institute: July 28, 2011

LATINOS and ACCESS to Quality FOODS throughout LOS ANGELES: Impacts of street vendors, community gardens and supermarkets.

EAST HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. (July 8, 2011) -- The East Hollywood Neighborhood Council and the East Hollywood Arts and Culture Committee announce the third annual ArtCycle, a community event designed to celebrate the arts, bicycling, public space, and sustainable living in the heart of Los Angeles. ArtCycle will be held on Saturday, Sept. 17, from 2 - 10 p.m., on Santa Monica Blvd. between Vermont Ave. and Virgil Ave.

As you may have heard, the July 10th CicLAvia has been cancelled, but that shouldn't stop anyone from riding on that day. CicLAvia will instead be hosting a community bike ride! No street closure. Riding in a group, with traffic. Obeying traffic laws. You can ride free, but there's a suggested donation of $5. See Facebook Event.

How to be sure the Arts District is included in METRO planning…show up and speak up. Title of Workshop: RE-ENVISIONING the Los Angeles Downtown Arts District & Little Tokyo Community: a Neighborhood Design Workshop Description: SCI-ARC, the Southern California Institute of Architecture and METRO invite members of the community to a Neighborhood Design Workshop, exploring a more livable future via walking, biking and mass transit. The Neighborhood Design Workshop will be orchestrated by Peter Zellner, coordinator of SCI-Arc’s Future Initiatives Urban Design post graduate program and will focus on identifying key objectives for a more transit integrated community. Date: July 15, 2011 Time: 4-6 pm Location: JACCC 244 S. San Pedro Street, Suite 505, Los Angeles, CA 90012 Conference Rooms A,B &

The Los Angeles Region Planning History Group, in cooperation with the at Huntington Museum" USC Institute on California and the West, is convening its next colloquium.  Colloquium VI, Los Angeles: Invented Spaces or Authentic Places?  You will find this next colloquium to be especially informative and thought-provoking.  We are planning a facilitated, interactive session will all colloquium attendees after the formal presentations; the results of the interactive session will be posted on the LARPHG website.