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Adding 1 million people along the Wilshire corridor could help L.A. sustainability
Adding 1 million people along the Wilshire corridor could help L.A. create a sustainable city
November 3rd, 2016
By Thom Mayne
Read More: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/livab...103-story.html
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L.A. will be hotter, with more wildfires and less snow in the San Gabriels. As my colleague Mark Gold, UCLA’s vice chancellor for environment and sustainability, recently described it, the changing climate will make us “sort of like a ‘Phoenix by the sea.’”
- How can we absorb an additional 1.5 million people while accounting for the impacts of climate change, advancing environmental sustainability (100% local water, 100% renewable energy, and enhanced ecosystem and human health) and urban affordability without completely destroying the character that Angelenos love about their city?
- Backers of transit-oriented development, who have the ear of City Hall, favor expanding rail and rapid bus routes across the county and constructing dense, multiuse development alongside those corridors. That effort, however, has drawn pushback from Angelenos who don’t want to see the character of their communities change.
- My studio at UCLA, the Now Institute, proposes a happy medium between sweeping overhaul and stagnation — one that places 1.5 million additional people on only 1% of county land. By adding 1 million more people along the Wilshire Boulevard corridor, and another half million in other transit-oriented areas, we can add needed housing while preserving the neighborhood character.
- Wilshire Boulevard could easily accommodate another million residents. In fact, using Hong Kong’s residential building types, it could accommodate another 8 million people. In our relatively conservative model, the density of the Wilshire corridor would be less than that of Manhattan. The densest neighborhood in the corridor would be Koreatown.
- This densification strategy would allow more Los Angeles residents to live a public transit-based lifestyle in a moderate coastal climate zone — one less prone to wildfires, extreme heat days and associated spikes in electricity consumption. The strategy also diminishes water demand from single-family lawns, reduces vehicular emissions associated with sprawl, and protects an area 10 times its size.
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Koreatown could double its population with developments along Wilshire Boulevard, while still being less dense than Manhattan's Upper East Side. (Beyza Paksoy and Elisabet Olle / Now Institute)
Building greater density along the cool Santa Monica coast would minimize regional energy use during the greater number of extreme heat days to come. (Cagdas Delen and Rupal Rathi / Now Institute)
A linear park over the 110 Freeway would transform a barrier between downtown Los Angeles and the rest of Wilshire Boulevard into a connective strip that makes for a more walkable live-work downtown. (Halina Zarate and Devika Tandon / Now Institute)
A vision of an augmented Century City, transformed into a second downtown. (Shareefa Abdulsalam and Niketa Sondhi / Now Institute)
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