Americans have always had a love affair with their cars. Los Angeles has championed that love affair. Look back at postcards of Los Angeles from 50 years ago and you will see ribbons of freeways filled with cars flowing across the city landscape. Not much has changed when you envision images of the second largest city in the country. Endless ribbons of traffic jammed freeways and miles of concrete river beds showcase the city to the same extent as the palm trees and beaches. We also now, more clearly, understand the impact of those automobiles on the environment and climate change. Architects and urban planners are trying to envision a city’s architecture that benefits more than the automobile and directly impacts the effects of climate change. The vision is for a new L.A. architecture that creates a new urban landscape.
L.A. Becomes a Living Laboratory
The USC School of Architecture hosted a program “Landscape Architecture as Necessity” from Sep 22-24, 2016. Architects, academics, writers, activists, landscape architects and scientists from around the globe attended this conference, offering a change in urban landscape for the future. They focused on the issue of landscape architecture as a framework for addressing global climate change. Sponsors of the program feel strongly that Los Angeles is the perfect urban space for their initiatives.
Moving past the Rhetoric
Experts who attended the conference hope to move past the rhetoric of ‘sustainable design’ with a vision that truly has an impact on climate change.
“What we hoped to do was initiate a discussion and underscore that the professions of the built environment must become a necessity, not a luxury.”
Kelly Shannon, Professor
USC School of Architecture
Sharing real-world projects in L.A. and around the world that offer novel approaches to environmental planning and decision-making can get more people to grapple with pressing urban issues — and plan ahead for what’s to come.
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