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Walk Score

Towers in the Park—Unsafe at Any Income?

July 4, 2013 By Carol Berens

Frederick Douglass House
Frederick Douglass Houses on the Upper West Side were built in 1958 and consists of 17 buildings of various heights and contains 2,056 apartments. The complex is still a public housing project run by the New York City Housing Authority. (Photo, Carol Berens 2013)

The month of June saw the opening of a major exhibition on the works of Le Corbusier at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the signing of a contract for a $2.2 million apartment in Lincoln Towers, about 20 blocks north of the museum. What, you may ask, do these events have to do with each other? Continue Reading Towers in the Park—Unsafe at Any Income?

Filed Under: Affordable Housing, Design, Feature Posts, Planning Tagged With: Affordable Housing, density, green space, housing authority, HUD, infill, new urbanism, open space, Pruitt-Igoe, section 8, smart growth, sustainable, TOD, transit oriented development, Walk Score, walkable

Walking in Los Angeles

May 17, 2012 By Clement Lau

View of DTLA from Vista Hermosa Park (within walking distance of my home)Do people actually walk in Los Angeles?  I certainly do, but obviously, I cannot speak for all Angelenos.  As a Downtown (DTLA) resident and someone who enjoys walking daily, I was glad to learn that DTLA was recently named the “most walkable neighborhood in Los Angeles.”  With a Walk Score of 92, DTLA is considered a “walker’s paradise.”  The next most walking-friendly neighborhoods are Koreatown and Mid-City.  (Walk Score is a number between 0 and 100 that measures the walkability of any address.) Continue Reading Walking in Los Angeles

Filed Under: Los Angeles, Planning, Transportation Tagged With: Art Walk, CicLAvia, Downtown, Koreatown, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Conservancy, Walk Score, Walking

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