Allison Jang

The Food Gap: Reviving the Legacy of South Central Farm

This project is a response to Los Angeles’s pLAn, the city’s local implementation of the Green New Deal. It is an urban and economic design solution that reimagines the future of a 4.2-acre vacant lot at West Manchester Avenue and South Vermont Avenue in South Los Angeles. The project tackles the issue of the food desert phenomenon and social disinvestment in the area by reviving the spirit of the largest urban farm ever operated in the United States, the South Central Farm, which served underprivileged ethnic-minority families. TFG’s objective is to devise a long-term economic, environmental, and socially inclusive model for urban food production.

Advisor: Elisa Silva