Local Stakeholders Participate in a “Reseda Great Streets” Panel Discussion at the 2016 American Planning Association (APA) Conference in Pasadena
On a Sunday morning in late October a group of Northridge neighbors, academics and local office holders presented at the 2016 California Conference of the American Planning Association, held in Pasadena at the Pasadena Conference Center, on the unique collaboration among disparate groups that has led to the first of the Los Angeles Great Streets, Reseda Blvd in Northridge. Represented by three Urban Studies and Planning faculty, Zeynep Toker, Craig Olwert and Allessandro Rigolon, who submitted the Northridge Great Street experience to the list of conference panel discussions for 2106, the panel posed the following question, “how could the success of the Reseda Great Street be duplicated in other parts of the city, both urban and suburban?” Underlining the question is a unique collaboration among diverse stakeholders which has created the ingredients leading to Reseda Boulevard's designation as one of Los Angeles' Great Streets, the first Great Street, and which has subs...