The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, with news from across the development sector, and this week features the LA Times’ on Frank Gehry’s plans for ‘an urban cultural park like no other’.
… many of these neighborhoods suffer disproportionately higher rates of infection from COVID-19…
… environmental groups, would prefer to see naturalization of the river…
… Southeast L.A. deserves parks and trails, education…
Louis Sahagun in The Los Angeles Times writes:
…In the decades since engineers first blanketed the Los Angeles River with concrete, working-class communities along its armored banks have struggled with blight, poverty and crowding — unintended consequences perhaps of an epic bid to control Mother Nature.
Now, as many of these neighborhoods suffer disproportionately higher rates of infection from COVID-19 — and as the nation seeks to atone for racial and institutional injustices laid bare in the police killing of George Floyd — famed architect Frank Gehry has unveiled a bold plan to transform the river into more than just a concrete flood channel and establish it as an unprecedented system of open space….
For more than half a century, Gehry has been better known for sketching ideas that became flashy cultural and commercial landmarks, such as the dazzling Walt Disney Concert Hall, whose tilting forms have reinforced Los Angeles’ place among the world’s great urban centers….
Critics, including some influential environmental groups, would prefer to see naturalization of the river itself….
[Gehry] plans to transform the forlorn industrial confluence of the Los Angeles River and the Rio Hondo in South Gate into an urban cultural park like no other….
“Revitalizing the river south of downtown offers our southeast communities an opportunity to rebuild our connections, to the river and each other,’ said Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood), whose 63rd Assembly District includes South Gate, Bell 2and Long Beach.”
Southeast L.A. deserves parks and trails, education and cultural centers,’ he added. ‘Equity comes when every community has access to the tools to make life better.”….
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