Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Livable Streets Communities

When you have to navigate a landscape that wasn't created with you in mind. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

When a Progressive Community Fails to See Its Own Biases, Bullying and Bigotry Get a Pass

By Sahra Sulaiman | May 8, 2017 | 165 Comments

So I resorted to the sincere query that I’ve made to him on several occasions, namely: Help me understand why consideration of the needs of the most vulnerable among us - particularly lower-income black and brown communities - is so offensive to you?

Ninth District Councilmember Curren Price (standing center left, brownish jacket) turned the packed-to-the-hilt town hall over to union representatives and representatives of the "creative habitat" known as the Reef after his opening remarks. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

Jobs or Housing? Historic South Central Residents Decry Feeling Asked to Choose by Billion Dollar Reef Project

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jun 14, 2016 | 24 Comments

THE NUMBER ONE THING that representatives from the “creative habitat” known as the Reef felt they had learned from engaging the community, the speaker told the more than 600 town hall attendees this past May 5, was that Historic South Central was “lacking a sense of place.” To give the community that sense of place […]

Op/Ed – Before Garcetti Can Be the Hero, He Needs to Slay the Zombies

By Damien Newton | Oct 15, 2013 | 10 Comments

Yesterday’s announcement that a planned pedestrian bridge for most of the corners of Lankershim Boulevard and Universal Hollywood Drive would cost $27 million, instead of the originally announced $19 million, was more bad news for those striving to make Los Angeles’ streets a better place. When Streetsblog last reported on this project, the cost was […]

At Grand Central, Ignore the “Flying Doughnut” and Look to the Street

By Stephen Miller | Oct 22, 2012 | No Comments

*Friday, we posted about Pedestrian Donuts in the Sky. This was Streetsblog’s Stephen Miller’s answer to SOM’s plans. [Thursday] at the Municipal Art Society Summit, three architecture firms — Foster + Partners, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and WXY architecture + urban design — unveiled proposals to remake public space in Midtown East, as the Bloomberg […]

Listening to the Streets in Order to Make Them More Livable: Part III in a Series

By Sahra Sulaiman | Aug 9, 2012 | No Comments

This is the third (and long overdue) piece in a series re-examining the way we think about Livable Streets. The first two articles (here and here) detail the history of a wonderful young man named Fidel who ran with a crew just north of USC. His experience mirrors that of many of the teens I […]

City Announces Meetings to Help Select Police Chief: We Need a Plan

By Damien Newton | Aug 19, 2009 | 9 Comments

Image: Times Yesterday, the City announced the details of their outreach strategy to gather public input on the qualities that Angelenos want to see in their next police chief. In early September, the city will hold four public outreach meetings in the Valley, South L.A., the Westside and, as Zach Behrens notes, near the Eastside. […]

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