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Street vendors can turn food deserts into food havens by bringing fresh fruits and vegetables into communities that lack access to healthy and affordable food.
Los Angeles now has an opportunity to be re-invent what "cool" means for cities across the globe.
Mississippi is miles away from California, but the challenges the film depicts are universal where community groups are grappling with similar concerns about environmental changes.
What should Departures focus on in Venice? How do we tell the story of this ever changing community?
For many years communities like Pacoima have been planned and built for us, instead of with us. The effects of the lack of community input are evident: polluting industry next to homes, lack of economic development opportunities, lack of green space, a...
It's official. The next installment of Departures will open up and spill its guts, allowing people to search, comment, annotate and share....
Participants shared their own definitions and examples of the word "community," and create photographic works based on these shared ideas using found photography and embroidery.
Venice Arts' Community Story Lab ventured out together for their first group shoot around Venice and gathered photographs that could help shape how they envision their "community."
The practice of community conferencing is derived from the Maori people in New Zealand. Locally, similar practices can empower youth and community with the knowledge that there is an alternative to the criminal justice system.
In the Southeast Asian communities of Long Beach, Restorative Justice practices can help heal youths suffering from zero-tolerance policies in schools, as well as trauma from the legacy of the Cambodian genocide.
Reyner Banham's love letter to L.A. was the first hint I had of the depth and contradictions of the city where I had chosen to spend the rest of my life.
