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After the 1992 civil uprising in L.A., artist Tricia Ward was given an opportunity to initiate a community arts workshop in Highland Park designed to engage local youth in the development and on-going implementation of community programs.
Many musicians have been inspired by Highland Park - Jackson Browne with "Lawless Avenues" and Eleanor Friedberger's "Inn of the Seventh Ray" comes to mind - but local band Artichoke and main songwriter Timothy Sellers are the first - and perhaps only ...
As Lummis, Percival and others celebrated community and experimentation in the age of industrialization, today's artists and thinkers are digging their hands into the dirt to create conceptual art, using yarn to mark territories - real or imagined, cla...
Urban homesteading loosely refers to the formal pursuit of local sustainable living, urban agriculture, and a general awareness of DIY household consumption and recycling practices. This concept is nothing new to Highland Park and to many communities i...
At the turn of the last century, Highland Park was distinguished by its unique natural beauty and winding Arroyo Seco. After WWII, as urbanization…
In a dense city lacking in public space, the Arroyo Seco and the Los Angeles River open up the possibility for the creation of a unique "central park" that could knit together communities along the river's length, providing pocket parks at the edges, a...
Just as the Highline in New York City was re-purposed as a city park once it had outlived its usefulness, infrastructure such as the Arroyo Seco Parkway could potentially be re-imagined to respond to changing needs and behaviors in the city.
The transformation of Highland Park's landscape from single family homes to high density apartments spurred some local residents and preservationists to act to protect the heritage of this historical Arroyo Seco community.
Arroyo Books, considered to have one the largest collection of bilingual titles in the city and boasted some of the best Chicano Literature line-ups, provided Highland Park with a much needed bookstore and a community center.
The popularity of large shopping malls in Eagle Rock, Glendale, and Pasadena lured many Highland Park residents away from the its declining shopping district on North Figeuroa Street.
In the 1980s disenfranchised youth of Highland Park, bereft of community resources and victims of education inequality, became increasingly susceptible to gang activity.
Between the 1980s and the early 1990s, approximately 20% of El Salvador's population fled the country. 52% of them, roughly 300,000 refuges of a civil war that tore the country and the region apart for more than a decade, settled in L.A.