Unreliably Yours

The number one thing that will reduce traffic, crime, and the lack of parks and public places in LA- Drinking 40’s in the late afternoon sun on our front porches, already.

You’re asking where these porches are.

It’s a new trend to take this super important and obvious element of housing and bring it back, to LA! This amongst other things are going to change LA dramatically over the next decade.

I am excited because the planning movement is exploding with badass innovative ideas, for combating a low quality of life, such as alleyway parks/greenstrips (http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-me-outthere12-2008sep12,0,3244805.story), parks on top of freeways (http://www.angelenic.com/780/park-101-vision-downtowns-next-big-thing/ and http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/emeraldcity/2008/01/a-green-roof-pa.html), and front porches.

Many of these ideas do not require LA to be completely rebuilt nor seek to create within LA a replica more of an old monied small town, or a New York lite. I’m all for us doing it our way, not simply just replicating, to the T, other cities’ form. New Urbanism, LA style, is all about reclaiming what everyone has written off (for social or environmental reasons), be it a Brownfield, a neighborhood, a small strip of land, or even our whole city-and doing something amazing with it to facilitate a better quality of life.

Synthesis, people, synthesis!! This entire blog relies on that concept!!

While I find a lot of 50’s-80’s era architecture utterly unexciting and ugly, we see what amazing tricks people can do when they’re creative.

Anyways, back to the original subject: Can’t we all just get along (get drunk together)? For the sake of a better city and community-Salud!