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Wanted: More Urban Parks in Los Angeles

Posted by: Mike Lydon

5 October 2005 - 10:00am

Author D.J. Waldie calls for the creation of more open space in park poor Los Angeles.

In a city where much seems the same, parks aren't like other places. Nothing in a proper park is for sale, nothing clamors for attention, nothing reminds you that you're late for something else, nothing is poised to enrage or humiliate. It is in our nature to long for these liberating places. The city's commercial "groves" and "promenades" are unsatisfactory substitutes.

Full Story: Eden's need for green
Source: LA Times, October 4, 2005
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The areas where we have severe blight and indications of more blight to come are basically the same as they ever were. How in the world are we ever going to move our community development selves into an alternative future that thinks differently about the challenges we face in our cities and low-income suburban and rural communities?
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