Rate Increases During Tough Economic Times – A Case Study of the City of Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation's Use of Stakeholder Outreach To Pass a Sewer Rate Adjustment

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-37
Author(s):  
Dan Baker ◽  
Lisa Mowery ◽  
Los Angeles
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Rate Adjustment ◽  
The City

A Smart City Remembers Its Past

Crowdsourcing ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 489-516
Author(s):  
Jennifer Minner ◽  
Andrea Roberts ◽  
Michael Holleran ◽  
Joshua Conrad
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Historical Survey ◽  
Web Based ◽  
First Case ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
The City

Integral to some conceptualizations of the “smart city” is the adoption of web-based technology to support civic engagement and improve information systems for local government decision support. Yet there is little to no literature on the “smartness” of gathering information about historic places within municipal information systems. This chapter provides three case studies of technologically augmented planning processes that incorporated citizens as sensors of data about historic places. The first case study is of SurveyLA, a massive effort of the city of Los Angeles to comprehensively survey over 880,000 parcels for historic resources. A second case study involves Motor City Mapping, an effort to identify the condition of buildings in Detroit, Michigan and a parallel historical survey conducted by volunteers. In Austin, Texas, a university-based research team designed a municipal web tool called the Austin Historical Survey Wiki. This chapter offers insights into these prior efforts to augment planning processes with “digitized memory,” web-based technology, and public engagement.

scholarly journals Routine Assessment of Health Impacts of Local Transportation Plans: A Case Study From the City of Los Angeles

2019 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
pp. 490-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Will Nicholas ◽  
Irene Vidyanti ◽  
Emily Caesar ◽  
Neil Maizlish
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
The City ◽  
Routine Assessment

Legalizing Street Vending in Los Angeles: Reframing a Movement during the Fourth Wave of Feminism

2020 ◽  
pp. 089692052097678
Author(s):  
Sara Bruene ◽  
Moshoula Capous-Desyllas
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Labor Rights ◽  
Street Vendor ◽  
Street Vending ◽  
Frame Alignment ◽  
Fourth Wave ◽  
The City

Street vending was criminalized in the city of Los Angeles since the 1930s. The Los Angeles Street Vendor Campaign (LASVC) utilized several framing tactics over the last several years in order to mobilize participants to decriminalize and legalize the profession of street vending. This article applies frame alignment theory to illustrate how the LASVC reached its goals. This case study utilizes qualitative interviews of key players in the LASVC movement and a content analysis of LASVC’S Facebook page to document their push toward decriminalization over the course of 1 year. The LASVC transformed their narrative from issues of immigration and labor rights and reframed street vending as a women’s justice issue. By doing so, the LASVC extended the boundaries of their frames to incorporate the voices of women of color whose online and on-the-ground efforts to mobilize a larger population manifested during an era of the fourth wave feminism.

PRIDE and Prejudice: The Economic Impacts of Growth Controls in Pasadena

1993 ◽  
Vol 25 (7) ◽  
pp. 987-1002 ◽  
Author(s):  
H W Richardson ◽  
P Gordon ◽  
M-J Jun ◽  
M H Kim
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
House Prices ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Occupational Groups ◽  
Output Losses ◽  
The City ◽  
Growth Controls

Whereas most debates about growth controls have focused primarily on the impacts of land and house prices, this study examines anticipated job and output losses. Using the example of the proposed nonresidential and residential controls approved by the voters of Pasadena, California, as a case study, the authors employ a spatial allocation/regional input-output model (the Southern California Planning Model) that allocates highly disaggregated sectoral impacts (direct, indirect, and induced) to 219 zones (cities and unincorporated areas) in the Los Angeles metropolitan region. The largest economic losses are the result of denied nonresidential construction, and these are cumulative over the ten years of the proposed ordinance (now defunct after the 1992 elections). The lowest-skilled occupational groups are the hardest hit in terms of lost jobs, and almost three fifths of the employment losses occur in the city of Pasadena itself. These results offset the favorable claims for growth controls made by their advocates.

Assessing Impact of Bus Traffic on Pavement Maintenance Costs: City of Los Angeles

2003 ◽  
Vol 1853 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
M. Y. Shahin ◽  
James A. Crovetti ◽  
Kurt A. Keifer
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Maintenance Cost ◽  
Maintenance Costs ◽  
Pavement Condition ◽  
Pavement Maintenance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Evaluation Techniques

Engineers for the city of Los Angeles have observed that lanes carrying Mass Transit Authority (MTA) bus traffic deteriorate at a faster rate than similar lanes without bus traffic. The increased rate of deterioration results in greater maintenance costs in these lanes. To properly apportion the increased maintenance costs, city engineers need an objective method for quantifying the impact of MTA bus traffic. Multiple evaluation techniques are presented that may be used to quantify the effect of buses in terms of increased deterioration rates and greater rehabilitation costs. State-of-the-art techniques that use the results of deflection testing and pavement condition surveys are presented. Data collection procedures, methods for condition and structural analyses, and life-cycle costing procedures are provided. A case study that uses data collected from the city is presented. This study indicates an average yearly additional maintenance cost of $800 per lane-mile caused by MTA bus traffic, excluding associated costs for curb and gutter or maintenance hole adjustments.

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Onsite Residential Graywater Recycling: A Case Study on the City of Los Angeles

2015 ◽  
Vol 107 (9) ◽  
pp. E436-E444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zita L.T. Yu ◽  
J.R. Deshazo ◽  
Michael K. Stenstrom ◽  
Yoram Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Benefit Analysis ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Co-living (as a way of life): The Urbanism of the New Urban Crisis in Los Angeles and Beyond

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Sternberg
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Global City ◽  
Urban Crisis ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Living Space ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City

The 21st century global city is in the midst of a new urban crisis: while it holds an increasing monopoly on employment opportunities, it has become harder to access. In this article, I argue that young urban aspirants are still accessing the global city in crisis through the practice of co-living. Co-living can be understood as an emergent collection of residential commoning practices employed by in-bound urbanites to access in-demand parts of the city and attain employment, housing and community. Through a relational ethnographic case study of the PodShare co-living space in the global city of Los Angeles, I argue that co-living is as an urbanism arising to stabilize the new urban crisis on both the level of the individual and the city, guiding individuals to grin at their condition and be increasingly mobile between multiple global cities in an attempt to maximize their chances of securing longer-term residency.

A Smart City Remembers Its Past

2018 ◽  
pp. 95-129
Author(s):  
Jennifer Minner ◽  
Andrea Roberts ◽  
Michael Holleran ◽  
Joshua Conrad
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Historical Survey ◽  
Web Based ◽  
First Case ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
The City

Integral to some conceptualizations of the “smart city” is the adoption of web-based technology to support civic engagement and improve information systems for local government decision support. Yet there is little to no literature on the “smartness” of gathering information about historic places within municipal information systems. This chapter provides three case studies of technologically augmented planning processes that incorporated citizens as sensors of data about historic places. The first case study is of SurveyLA, a massive effort of the city of Los Angeles to comprehensively survey over 880,000 parcels for historic resources. A second case study involves Motor City Mapping, an effort to identify the condition of buildings in Detroit, Michigan and a parallel historical survey conducted by volunteers. In Austin, Texas, a university-based research team designed a municipal web tool called the Austin Historical Survey Wiki. This chapter offers insights into these prior efforts to augment planning processes with “digitized memory,” web-based technology, and public engagement.

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