TRANSIENCY // PERMANENCE ZEYNEP + ALEXIS
PERMENANT POPULATION DENSITY
ARTS DISTRICT
BROADWAY
LITTLE TOKYO
LITTLE BANGLADESH
VENICE BEACH / PUBLIC BOARDWALK MARKET
VENICE BEACH / SKATEPARK
KOREATOWN
UNDER THE JUNCTION
SKID ROW
IN BETWEEN ARTS DISTRICT AND DOWNTOWN
URBAN AMERICA / POLICY CHOICES FOR LOS ANGELES AND THE NATION
PUBLIC POLICY AND THE INNER CITY ACROSS THREE DECADES INTRO The urban policy of 1960s focused on problems of urban poverty, discrimination against black and the inner city economic decline. The book historically frames and policies of 1990s, starting with the examination of the parallel experiences of the 60s. Their conclusion is that the local initiatives can make improvements at the margin but signifiant improvements in employment for the hard core poor and in their children’s skills and opportunities are depenednt on external factors, especially strong national economic growth and the federal role in urban economic development. As the 1950s ended, south inner cities bcome more segregated centers of poverty inhabited increasingly by blacks displaced from farming. As 1960 began, LA’s urban policty was much more conscious focusing on poverty and race.
G A N G W AR S
Gangs have been a part society for hundreds of years. Today, they are bigger and more dangerous than any time before. Their origins lay in a lack of education, poverty, and racism. Black and Latino gangs in Los Angeles originally come as a response to white racism, but quickly spun out of control.
W H E R E D O E S T HE B O U N D A R Y O
“Porches, stoops, apartment house lobbies between the private and public spheres, bridg yards, party walls, and fences mediate betwe decorations places in a window communicate parks, while technically public, belong to th
OF A NEIGHBOR BEGIN AND END?
s and picture windows establish a transition ging the household and the neighborhood. Side ween neighbors. The political signs and holiday e the occupant’s identity. Sidewalks, streets, and he neighborhood, and trespassers are noted.�
BOUNDARIES OF LEVELS OF PRIVACY IN A TYPICAL HOUSING BLOCK IN DOWNTOWN L.A.
PRIVATE SEMI-PUBLIC PUBLIC
WHEN DO THESE BOUN
NDARIES BLUR IN L.A.?
“I see the homelessness everywhere and it became so visible it turned invisible.�
“The homeless, because of their constancy, you tend to be able to just filter them out eventually.”
HOMELESS POPULATION DENSITY
ARE SEMI-TRANSIE NT POPULA
"Skid Row has become less transient… The true long term. It's becom
ATIONS STI LL “NEIGHBORS”?
definition of transient is short term. Now it's me a neighborhood."
“You guys are my neighbors and I see you on a regular basis. Just because you don’t have a home that you pay rent or a mortgage to doesn’t mean that you don’t live in the arts district or skid row or wherever in between. I see you more than I would see the person who lives right next to me.”
“I have the largest house in Venice – because Venice is my house.I have friends that have offered me places to stay. I would prefer to live in my car in Venice than in a mansion with a swimming pool overlooking the city any day.”
THE INTERSECTION OF SEMI-TRANSIENT AND PERMANENT POPULATIONS
HOW CAN WE GIVE BACK THE BY THE HOMELESS POPULATION B H A V E A N E S T A B L I S H E D C U L TU R E A
PUBLIC SPACE INHABITATED B U T S T I L L A L L O W T H E H OM E L E S S ND TRANSIENT SPACE IN THE CITY?
LOTS “AVAILABLE”
VENICE BEACH / EMPTY LOT
TAKING BACK PUBLIC SPACE By starting to take over semi-public or private lots and connecting these spaces over and at the level or existing sidewalks the connection between the city becomes stronger. The ability to thicken the “tissue” in specific areas can allow for program to exist within the connective tissue. The program would include -transient housing - urgent care and mental health center -education and outreach centers -community centers to reach both the transient and permanent populations
PROGRAMMATIC POTENTIONAL transient populations have moved through LA at dierent points in its history such as during the Olympic games by creating transient housing one can allow for both the homeless to ďŹ nd a place in a city but temporary visitors as well these spaces can act as public space, cater to the current transient population and look to cater for future populations the community in turn becomes more connected physically and the transient population gets an established space and the ability to evoke its own identity