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Partners: Sherry Hunter; Allensworth Community Services District (ACSD); Allensworth Progressive Association (APA) LJI team: Alison Hirsch, Shuyi Zhang (MLA’25), Kavya Gudihal (MLA ’25), Sarina Vega (MLA ’25), Mark Reid (MLA ’25), Supported by USC School of Architecture’s Grant & Shaya Kirkpatrick Landscape Architecture + Urbanism Leadership Fund    ALLENSWORTH CEMETERY Part of the work LJI … Continue reading The Allensworth Historic and Community Cemetery

Alison Hirsch, USC; Allensworth Progressive Association; Allensworth Community Services District; with students: Sarina Vega (MLA+U ’25) and Nina Weithorn (MLA+U ’24); students in Spring ’23 ARCH 566 seminar Project Partners: Allensworth Progressive Association (APA); Allensworth Community Services District (ACSD) Supported by USC School of Architecture’s Grant & Shaya Kirkpatrick Landscape Architecture + Urbanism Leadership Fund … Continue reading Allensworth Rising Again

Farre Nixon, PI With students: Lucia Bayley, Hannah Flynn, Gloria Gao, Lufan Hu, Yixuan Li, Jiawei Luo, Luis Mota, and Eliana Ramirez Project Partners: Redeemer Community Partnership, Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust Supported by USC School of Architecture’s Grant & Shaya Kirkpatrick Landscape Architecture + Urbanism Leadership Fund 2022 Justice by Design: Landscape as a … Continue reading Justice by Design: Landscape as a Tool for Healing and Restitution

Jared Edgar McKnight, PI, Alison Hirsch, PI, Lauren Elachi, Co-PI With students: Andrea Binz, Lara Lebeiko, Eva Malis, Zehra Baneen Rizvi, and the MLA+U 2021-2022 cohort (for Vertical Workshop) Project Partners: Pando, City Homelessness Initiatives, Office of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti  Project Advisors: Homeless Health Care Los Angeles (HHCLA), Los Angeles Community Action Network … Continue reading Climate Justice in Skid Row

Alison Hirsch, PI With research team: Molly Fancler (MLA’16), Yao Yao (MLA’17), Donielle Kaufman (MLA’17), Jade Orr (MLA’18), Rachel Ison (MLA’18); with additional student work by Jonathan Froines (MLA’14), Nan Cheng (MLA’15) 2020 Los Angeles ’92 (2020) This research questions whether and how to physically and fairly recognize histories of resistance to violence and inequality … Continue reading Los Angeles ’92