2020 Hindsight
A decade of urban design in Los Angeles: my take on the most influential city-making projects of the past decade, including this most recent and consequential year.
A decade of urban design in Los Angeles: my take on the most influential city-making projects of the past decade, including this most recent and consequential year.
“Being in city government is exciting in that you have the opportunity to invent projects. You can see a need or opportunity to fix a problem, figure out how you approach that problem, and then craft a project around it.” – Looking back the projects completed and initiatives started in 2016.
Patience is a necessary character trait for the urban designer, as it can take many years, if not decades, for your plans to be realized. 2015, however, was the year in which many of the elements in the plan we proposed for downtown Glendale came to started to come together. Plans do come to fruition.