HARLEM PLACE

 
 

Harlem Place, our project site, is currently a polluted, unappealing concrete service road running from 2nd-9th Street between Main and Spring Streets in Downtown LA. The recent boom of redevelopment in LA's historic core has caused residents to increasingly use this space for dog walking and pedestrian travel between blocks despite its barren state. Recently, LA began redevelopment of two parking lots into Spring Street Park, adjacent to the Harlem Place alleyway. While the extent of surface parking and impermeable surfaces proximate to Harlem Place are formidable, this new park exemplifies the opportunities for Harlem Place to become a central spine connecting multifunctional interstitial greenspace nodes. By focusing our efforts on articulating the impacts of the Harlem Place redevelopment project, we will create a tangible prototype demonstrating the potential of greenspace integration in underutilized urban spaces. Our project will serve as a model which can be extrapolated to inform other greenspace projects, furthering the impact of a Downtown greening strategy for continued sustainable development. Harlem Place will demonstrate the impacts of greenspace to local stakeholders and create community buy-in for other green redevelopment projects.


















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