What role should the school play in helping regions and cities adopt urban design guidelines?
We are excited that concerns of the quality of community and urban fabric are on the mayors agenda. We are on the look out for all kinds of channels that we can use to exchange that energy and enthusiasm from the mayors office and our school. I am speaking with Gail Goldberg and her team, trying to contribute intelligence and information. Simply put, I want to tell you and your readers, please use us. We are here. If a school doesnt participate in this exciting agenda for the city, I think it is a great mutual loss. Specifically, in our graduates and the higher level of undergraduates, starting this summer, we are going to consolidate the schools previous endeavors in issues related to the quality of public space and the urban environment. The summer studio, for example, is being launched with the idea to operate a kind of intellectual archaeology on all the previous projects for the L.A. River in order to create a database and intelligence pool on which a series of great intervention
