Download or read book Transforming Los Angeles Union Station written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) purchased the iconic downtown Los Angeles Union Station in 2011 and shortly thereafter initiated the preparation of the Union Station Master Plan. Gruen Associates was selected as the prime consultant, with Grimshaw Architects as the design lead to prepare the Union Station Master Plan. In 2015, Metro released "Transforming Los Angeles Union Station, a Summary Report," a synopsis of the two-year master planning process, including substantial data analysis, stakeholder engagement, key findings, alternatives analysis, final recommendations and an implementation strategy."

Download or read book Union Station Los Angeles California written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The document presents structured design guidance for those establising a transit, development, or open space proposal within the Union Station Master Plan (USMP) area. Metro's current holdings of approximately so contiguous acres encompass the historic Station, the railyard, associated transportation hub facilities, the Gateway building and a nearby site currently operated by a restaurant. The Design Guidelines are to be used by Metro, the City of Los Angeles, architects, engineers, landscape architects and other related disciplines in designing projects within the Union Station Master Plan boundaries shown in the USMP...The document is organized into six Chapters as well as an Appendix with supplemental materials. In conjunction with the Transforming Los Angeles Union Station Report, Technical Memoranda and the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Neighborhood Development (LEED N D) version 3 manual, the sections of this Design Guidelines document communicate the design principles and guidelines which need to be considered during the concept design or later stages of a transit, public or private realm design or improvement project to achieve the overarching goals of the developed Master Plan...

Download or read book Los Angeles Union Station Master Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The document presents structured design guidance for those establising a transit, development, or open space proposal within the Union Station Master Plan (USMP) area. Metro's current holdings of approximately so contiguous acres encompass the historic Station, the railyard, associated transportation hub facilities, the Gateway building and a nearby site currently operated by a restaurant. The Design Guidelines are to be used by Metro, the City of Los Angeles, architects, engineers, landscape architects and other related disciplines in designing projects within the Union Station Master Plan boundaries shown in the USMP...The document is organized into six Chapters as well as an Appendix with supplemental materials. In conjunction with the Transforming Los Angeles Union Station Report, Technical Memoranda and the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Neighborhood Development (LEED N D) version 3 manual, the sections of this Design Guidelines document communicate the design principles and guidelines which need to be considered during the concept design or later stages of a transit, public or private realm design or improvement project to achieve the overarching goals of the developed Master Plan...

Download or read book Transforming Urban Transport written by Diane E. Davis and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transforming Urban Transport brings into focus the origins and implementation pathways of significant urban transport innovations that have recently been adopted in major, democratically governed world cities that are seeking to advance sustainability aims. It documents how proponents of new transportation initiatives confronted a range of administrative, environmental, fiscal, and political obstacles by using a range of leadership skills, technical resources, and negotiation capacities to move a good idea from the drawing board to implementation. The book's eight case studies focus on cities of great interest across the globe--Los Angeles, Mexico City, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Seoul, Stockholm, and Vienna--many of which are known for significant mayor leadership and efforts to rescale power from the nation to the city. The cases highlight innovations likely to be of interest to transport policy makers from all corners, such as strengthening public transportation services, vehicle and traffic management measures, repurposing roads and other urban spaces away from their initial function as vehicle travel corridors, and turning sidewalks and city streets into more pedestrian-friendly places for walking, cycling, and leisure. Aside from their transformative impacts in transportation terms, many of the policy innovations examined here have altered planning institutions, public-private sector relations, civil society commitments, and governance mandates in the course of implementation. In bringing these cases to the fore, Transforming Urban Transport advances understanding of the conditions under which policy interventions can expand institutional capacities and governance mandates, particularly linked to urban sustainability. As such, it is an essential contribution to larger debates about what it takes to make cities more environmentally sustainable and the types of strategies and tactics that best advance progress on these fronts in both the short- and the long-term.

Download or read book Los Angeles Transformed written by Tom Sitton and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Fletcher Bowron (1887-1968) ran for mayor of Los Angeles in 1938, his twelve years as a superior court judge with a reputation for honesty and fairness carried him to victory against a notoriously corrupt incumbent. During his nearly fifteen years as a neo-progressive mayor, Bowron presided over fundamental reforms in the police department, public utilities, and other agencies charged with basic services, rooting out bribery, kickbacks, and influence peddling. World War II brought economic and population booms, racial conflict, social dislocation, and environmental problems to Los Angeles and complicated Mayor Bowron's job. After the war Bowron initiated massive public housing and desegregation projects. These forward-looking programs alienated enough voters to cost him the 1953 election as his leftist supporters fell away under the influence of McCarthyism. This political history of the mid-twentieth century reform period in Los Angeles is also a case study of the ways outside events can affect municipal affairs. As Tom Sitton demonstrates, the choices made during Bowron's administration have had a direct bearing on how Los Angeles looks today and how its government operates.

Download or read book Urban Transformations written by Ronald A. Altoon and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Present case studies of cities which have integrated, walkable transit districts. It argues that if well done, transit oriented developments can save money, create healthy neighbourhoods and help communities compete in the global marketplace.

Download or read book Los Angeles Union Station written by Marlyn Musicant and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Union Station today is a celebrated architectural icon and vibrant centerpiece of Los Angeles’s regional transportation network. Designed by John and Donald B. Parkinson, its mission revival architecture speaks to a mythic vision of Spanish heritage, but with streamline moderne and art deco details. At first glance this masterpiece, conceived as a magnificent gateway to the growing metropolis, offers no hint of the civic, financial, and legal battles surrounding its development, siting, style, and construction—battles that were waged across decades in the early twentieth century and that went as high as the U.S. Supreme Court. Los Angeles Union Station explores this compelling example of how transit and corporations disrupted regional balances of power and political economies. Aided by new research and beautiful drawings from the Getty Research Institute’s archive, the authors demonstrate how contentious politics informed architectural design—and the many ways in which Union Station was at the heart of the rise of Los Angeles. The book accompanies the exhibition No Further West, on view at the Los Angeles Public Library from May 2 through August 10, 2014.

Download or read book New Amtrak Facility at Union Station written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Next Great American Station written by Jaymes Phillip Dunsmore and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideas about a city are powerful forces, and have lasting impacts on the built environment. While not every vision is realized in the built form, every aspect of urban development is the reflection of a vision about what the city should be. This is especially true in Los Angeles. Today, the ideas and trends that shaped the development of that city, and many American metropolises, in the twentieth century are falling away, presenting the opportunity for new visions of downtown development and civic space to take form. This work seeks to understand the origins and effects of past visions for Downtown Los Angeles, critique the potential of current visions, and propose new ideas for urban development and public space, using the concepts of civic space and convergence as lenses and Los Angeles Union Station as a focal point. This work is divided into three parts. The first explores the visions and trends that shaped Los Angeles in the twentieth century and their influence on the city today. The second looks at current and emerging trends that are likely to inform the growth of the city in the twenty-first century, which suggest a new type of city is emerging: one in which economic activity, transportation networks and the city's cultures converge downtown. From this study, and an examination of two cities influenced by those trends (London and New York), are derived design principles for transit-oriented civic space networks in city centers. The third part narrows in on Union Station as a site, taking those principles and applying them to create a scenario for the future development of the station area, which is in part a projection of the current and emerging trends and in part an act of imagination, leaping beyond the status quo to envision a better city which does not yet exist, but could. In the conceptual design presented here, Union Station serves three important functions as both a gateway and a destination, a link between the city's past and future, and a cultural crossroads. The station becomes a focal element in a new model for urban development: the convergent city, in which Downtown Los Angeles is not the focus of everyday life, but reemerges as the center of civic life.

Download or read book Los Angeles Union Station TEA 21 Improvements written by Catellus Development and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Los Angeles Union Station Platform 7 written by Southern California Regional Rail Authority and published by . This book was released on 2011* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Redefining Transportation Culture written by Pawel Honc and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Union Station Area Development Strategy written by Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Los Angeles Union Station Run through Tracks Project written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Drive In the Supermarket and the Transformation of Commercial Space in Los Angeles 1914 1941 written by Richard W. Longstreth and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000-08-25 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longstreth explores the early development of two kinds of retail space that have become ubiquitous in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century. Richard Longstreth is one of the few historians to focus on ordinary commercial buildings—buildings usually associated with commercial builders and real estate developers rather than architects and thus generally overlooked by historians of "high" architecture. Here Longstreth explores the early development of two kinds of retail space that have become ubiquitous in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century. One, external, is devoted to the circulation and parking of automobiles on retail premises. Longstreth analyzes the origins of this development in the 1910s and 1920s, with the super service station and then the drive-in market. The other type of space, internal, was introduced soon thereafter with the single-story supermarket. The most innovative aspect of the supermarket was how its interior was designed for high-volume turnover of a large selection of goods with a minimum of staff assistance. Longstreth focuses on Los Angeles, the principal center for the development of both kinds of space, during the period from the mid-1910s to the early 1940s. This richly illustrated study integrates architectural, cultural, economic, and urban factors to describe the evolution of retailing and how it has affected the urban landscape.

Download or read book Transformation written by W.E. Commodore and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story takes the reader inside the mind of a child (the abuser) born into the maladjusted environment of the social cultural conditions that shaped the emotions and behaviors of a network of people who influenced his self-destructive personality and the journey to mental and emotional readjustment that brought the man-child to peace and healing. It displays a fusion of many teachings and principles that transform one's own spiritual nature. It is my hope that this book appeals to anyone of any culture that has experienced domestic violence and abuse, as it is an international crisis that desperately needs to be addressed.