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Category Archives: Parks

Natural Corridors of LA

June 9, 2005by Alan Loomis Leave a comment

Commentary published in “Los Angeles: Building the Polycentric City” for the 13th Congress of New Urbanism, June 2005

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LA River, Los Angeles, Parks, Writings

Exposition Park

June 9, 2005by Alan Loomis Leave a comment

Commentary published in “Los Angeles: Building the Polycentric City” for the 13th Congress of New Urbanism, June 2005

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Los Angeles, Parks, Places, Writings

Exposition Park

April 15, 2003by Alan Loomis Leave a comment

In so far as Exposition Park has been and continues to be encroached upon by development (and simultaneously subject to abandonment), it is an allegory for Los Angeles in general. Just as LA’s natural and agricultural landscapes have been systematically developed without consistent open space protection, Exposition Park has been treated as vacant land waiting for buildings.

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Los Angeles, Parks, Places, Writings

Parks and the LA River

September 19, 2000by Alan Loomis Leave a comment

A review of “Eden by Design: The 1930s Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region” and the 2000 LA Mayoral Debate at Occidential College

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Books, History, LA River, Los Angeles, Parks, Writings

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Revisiting some of my essays on shopping centers and the role of retail in the City this Black Friday. "The Americana at Brand" written for the Society of Architectural Historians Archipedia, 2018. Link in Bio.
Revisiting some of my essays on shopping centers and the role of retail in the City this Black Friday. "Victoria Gardens" written for the Congress for New Urbanism, 2005. Link in Bio.
Revisiting some of my essays on shopping centers and the role of retail in the City this Black Friday. "The Once and Future Mall" written for the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, 2004. Link in Bio.

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