The Hammer Museum won a Goldhirsh Foundation LA2050 prize for its ideas about how to redevelop nearby Westwood Village. Their pop-up called Arts ReStore includes 18 different vendors spread out in various temporarily re-claimed storefronts.
Rock on, Hammer Museum!
A report aims to find a common global method for evaluating and addressing climate risk in response to the increasing frequency of catastrophic storms to use by cities in their redevelopment processes.
One of the trends described in TrendsWatch 2013 is urban renaissance. The article discusses a historic neighborhood in Bogota, but here in the US we can also see this trend. I see it here in Hayward, CA, where we hope that the building of the new downtown museum will play a role in the renewal of downtown.