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Los Angeles is many things. It is one of the greatest cities in the world, but it’s not necessarily a walkable city. Los Angeles rush hour traffic is the stuff of legends.
Although, there are a handful of enclaves in Los Angeles that offer walkable trendy areas such as Larchmont Village in Hancock Park, Melrose Place in West Hollywood, Sunset Plaza in the Sunset Strip, Franklin Village in Beachwood Canyon and Los Feliz Village. Of course Beverly Hills flats shopping district, Rodeo Drive and all is the most famous and walkable neighborhood in Los Angeles, arguably except for Santa Monica’s 3rd street.
A recent article in AIA LA details how city leaders and private developers are attempting to change that through the Los Angeles 2.0.
According to the American Institute of Architects Los Angeles, Los Angeles 2.0 is:
…a transformational process to rapidly envision and remold LA using a public private partnership method to vigorously breathe life into areas around transit. This process is inspired by a redevelopment process called International Building Exhibits, or as it is internationally known as IBAs (Internationale Bau Ausstellung). Basically, they are approx. decade long, celebrated, highly publicized citywide urban design projects that, through community participation and professional competitions, invent new solutions to urban problems. And, they affect real change on a large scale. Where we struggle to wrap our minds around a few larger projects every other year, they literally tackle hundreds of large new building projects all at once. As a result, this process can quickly reinvigorate a city in brick and mortar, for all of us to enjoy.
That very wordy and somewhat dense, hard-to-understand paragraph is essentially stating AIA LA’s intention to transform Los Angeles into a more walkable, less car-dependent city on par with some of the other great cities of the world, and they want to achieve their goals quickly.
They have broken the project into three phases.
Phase 1 is a visioning stage, during which new, temporary and local zoning constraints around transit stations are developed and enacted.
Phase 2 consists of public/private partnering. Development partners, of course, must adhere to ongoing restrictions and covenants of this process.
Phase 3 is the realization phase. Actual projects are designed through design competitions, and private developers then build the winning entries.
Transforming Los Angeles into a city that encourages its residents and visitors to walk rather than hop in their cars and drive is a tall task, but it would not be the first time that LA has transformed itself – this is the city that created the drive thru and the strip mall after all.
Many of Los Angeles neighborhoods are already walkable and community oriented, such as West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, but this new plan would transform the face of Los Angeles real estate and have a major positive impact on property values and quality of life for residence with a higher walk score.
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