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Thursday, October 29, 2009
LA Metro's Official Blog
Please check out the official blog of LA Metro. It is called The Source and currently has up to date information on the new Gold Line extension opening November 15th.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Planning Resources on Twitter
LA Streets Blog (transportation news)
BLDGBLOG (architecture musings)
World Changing (green musings)
Next American City (planning magazine)
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Transit Forum Nov. 12th
High Speed Transit Forum
Design's Impact on High Speed Rail, Maglev Trains and Personal Rapid Transit
Thursday, November 12, 2009 6-8 P.M.
Brown Chapel, Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, California
http://www.designinnovationinstitute.org/transitforum.html
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Monday, October 26, 2009
Sunday, October 25, 2009
INHABITAT GREEN TALK WEBINAR with GAVIN NEWSOM, Wed. 12 pm, Rm. 306
Conference Room 306 at noon. Bring lunch!
From Inhabitat:
From Inhabitat:
CALLING ALL SAN FRANCISCANS & those of you who want to green your cities!
We’re interviewing San Francisco mayor GAVIN NEWSOM next Wednesday the 28th at 12pm PST, and we’re inviting YOU to join us next for this live webcast conversation with the country’s greenest mayor! Join us to find out more about groundbreaking energy projects, mandatory composting, and how San Francisco got to be the greenest city in the U.S!
As cities around the globe strive to become more sustainable, Mayor Newsom has led the charge in San Francisco towards cutting-edge transportation projects, groundbreaking initiatives in waste reduction, such as mandatory composting, and major advances in alternative energy. He’s also a forerunner in the race to be California’s next governor, which makes this a CAN’T MISS opportunity to talk with him about the future of the golden state! We’ll be interviewing Mayor Gavin Newsom next Wednesday at 12pm PST about all of these exciting projects and we want you to participate in the conversation, so sign up today!
We’ll be compiling a list of reader questions to ask Gavin, so if you have any queries about the policies, projects, and initiatives that stand to shape the sustainability of our cities, please submit them to us in the comments below, as soon as possible!
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Upcoming Film Screenings
The Orange County Film Society, in affiliation with the Newport Beach Film Festival, is screening two films next week that urban planners may find tantalizing:
8p,Wed., Oct 28
Documenting the City: Beijing
$10 online, Regency South Coast [map below]
Films, including documentaries, have done much to shape American and Chinese perceptions of each other. Beginning in 2006, USC and Beijing’s Communication University of China launched a program to have student filmmakers collaborate in exploring Los Angeles and Beijing. Each summer since seven students from one school have traveled to the other school and spent summer working with their counterparts to produce short documentaries on Los Angeles and Beijing as global cities. See samples of these films as USC professors Mark Jonathan Harris and Johanna Demetrakas and their students from USC present and comment the work following the screening.
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8p, Thurs., Oct 29
Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner
Free, Orange County Museum of Art [map below]
In conjunction with The Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection and H-Box, the Orange County Film Society is screening films about art, architecture, and design. This film traces the lifelong quest of visionary genius John Lautner to create "architecture that has no beginning and no end." His life was marked by innovation and inspiration, and finally monumental achievement.
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Leave a comment if you're interested and UPSA will arrange carpool.
8p,Wed., Oct 28
Documenting the City: Beijing
$10 online, Regency South Coast [map below]
Films, including documentaries, have done much to shape American and Chinese perceptions of each other. Beginning in 2006, USC and Beijing’s Communication University of China launched a program to have student filmmakers collaborate in exploring Los Angeles and Beijing. Each summer since seven students from one school have traveled to the other school and spent summer working with their counterparts to produce short documentaries on Los Angeles and Beijing as global cities. See samples of these films as USC professors Mark Jonathan Harris and Johanna Demetrakas and their students from USC present and comment the work following the screening.
View Larger Map
8p, Thurs., Oct 29
Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner
Free, Orange County Museum of Art [map below]
In conjunction with The Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection and H-Box, the Orange County Film Society is screening films about art, architecture, and design. This film traces the lifelong quest of visionary genius John Lautner to create "architecture that has no beginning and no end." His life was marked by innovation and inspiration, and finally monumental achievement.
View Larger Map
Leave a comment if you're interested and UPSA will arrange carpool.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Hollywood Community Studio Grand Opening 10/15
The Hollywood Community Studio is a research and resource center dedicated to serving and planning with the local community of Hollywood. It is home to the Human Development Overlay Districtproject (HD-OD), which researches the physical and social changes taking place in Hollywood. The project also uses cutting-edge technology to create a multi-dimensional information base and portrait of Hollywood that will be accessible to the public. HD-OD is a project of the Environmental Simulation Center with funding from the Ford Foundation and local support by the Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles.
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