Join like-minded champions of green space—urban planners, landscape architects, real estate pros, and our nonprofit coalition partners—for a happy hour that’s helping reshape LA’s future. Plus, enjoy exclusive access to Sage’s bar, craft beer from renowned brewmaster Kim Rice, and delicious food from LA’s first regenerative kitchen. All included with your ticket. 

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Join Jarrett Walker as he talks about his new book, Human Transit, Revised Edition and offers guidance to achieve successful public transit that will enrich any community.

Transportation expert Jarrett Walker believes that transit can be simple, if we focus on the underlying geometry that all transit systems share. Jarrett’s gift is being able to break down the basic principles of public transit so that you may have the tools necessary to clarify and advocate for your own values.

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Is your city's park and greenspace strategy helping everyone thrive?

Equitable development means making sure that everyone’s needs - especially those in underserved communities - are met as our cities change and transform over time. As cities find new ways of reducing disparities and creating strong, livable communities, it’s essential that parks and greenspaces are prioritized as part of the solution.

Parks and greenspaces can help address some of the most urgent challenges of today and tomorrow. They link neighbors to each other, provide space for leisure and exercise, and create shade and protection from weather events. They offer powerful opportunities to build healthy and connected neighborhoods, and places that people want to live, work, and play. However, with 100 million people lacking access to close-to-home parks, these benefits are not equitably available. And unless action is taken today, these inequities will continue to grow.

Come join us for an engaging discussion on how city leaders can plan for parks and greenspace projects that benefit all residents, especially those who are most impacted by economic burdens, health issues, and social disparities. During this 10-Minute Walk Mayors Roundtable, you’ll hear from city leaders who are using innovative policies and practices that leverage parks as a tool for equitable development. They’re helping to tackle systemic community problems like poverty, environmental justice, and health equity through their park and greenspace projects.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how your city can create a more inclusive and thriving community through its park and greenspace strategy!

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Join ULI Los Angeles for an online panel discussion on what different jurisdictions are doing to create an accommodating environment for outdoor dining as we move away from an emergency solution to permanent planning and urban design guidelines!

As we move away from the COVID emergency, what are different jurisdictions planning to create a permanent, accommodating environment for outdoor dining? What will future planning and urban design guidelines look like? Has this changed how the development community and restauranteurs plan and implement their current and future projects?

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Join ULI-LA as we (virtually) tour Exposition Park, where recent and ongoing projects are transforming the area and inspiring further investment and development.  The recently approved master plan improves connections to the surrounding community and adds more than 14 acres of street-level green space to the Park, which has undergone significant transformation with construction of the LA Football Club Bank of California Stadium and the ongoing construction of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. The tour will shed light on the inspiration behind the master plan and other upcoming Exposition Park projects, and drive discussion on how they may influence the surrounding community.

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Join us for Toward an Anti-Racist Architecture, a panel hosted and moderated by UCLA Architecture and Design PhD students.

How do we interrogate the architectural discipline and promote an anti-racist approach to the discourse?

This panel will begin a discussion on building an anti-racist discourse into architectural practice and architectural history. The intent is not simply to highlight or reify the concept of race or racism in architectural practice and history but to begin to build a language to dismantle and advance beyond these destructive forces. The ambition is to create a platform for exchanges and to link with other arenas that are already undertaking this anti-racist work and suggest how students can apply this practice in their futures. This panel will bring together four professionals and scholars in various fields of overlapping design practice and study, asking them to speak not only about how they have integrated an anti-racist discourse into their work but also about how they have transformed their respective practices into moments of self-criticality in order to build an equtible and just future for design.

Panelists include:

• Tsione Wolde-Michael, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Harvard University

• Germane Barnes, Assistant Professor and the Director of The Community Housing & Identity Lab (CHIL), University of Miami School of Architecture, Founder of Studio Barnes

• Amber Wiley, Assistant Professor, Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences Art History Department

• Sara Zewde, Assistant Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture, Harvard GSD

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Learn what cities, developers and restaurants are doing to help the restaurant industry and Main Streets survive amidst, and even thrive despite, the impacts of COVID-19. Hear from experts on both short and long-term effects of social distancing protocols and how present & future urban design and policies can be beneficial to the urban fabric and streetscapes. Insights will be shared and discussed amongst panelists from these different vantage points, as well as what to expect with Al Fresco 2.0 and the evolving urban fabric.

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