Mission and Vision
Approach and Process
Guiding Principles
Work Areas
Our Mission
We design spaces, projects, programs, and policy frameworks for communities affected by inequities in the built environment.
Our Vision
We envision a future of resident-directed development, community networks, and abundant resources for neighborhoods.
Work Areas
Our Program Areas are “Public Space”, which is inclusive of “Housing”, “Storefronts”, and “Transportation”.
Approach
Our guiding values are to invest in reparative forms of urban development; our work aims to change the current practice of urban development to demonstrate repair and just futures. We view impact as nonlinear and cumulative, which means our “practice” imagines and actions on building a future through multiple avenues of work and types of public space. With our clarified mission, we have outlined three main approaches we practice in our day to day work and organizational decisions.
In being accountable of our positionality, we challenge the traditional roles of architects & planners to transition power to communities over time. We affirm community by advocating for resident stories to influence changes to urban systems, processes and physical space. Our organizational structure as an interdisciplinary team, and our focus on cross-sector collaboration, is to bring cohesion and flexibility to current, disconnected urban processes.
Process
- In being accountable of our own positionality, we challenge the traditional roles of architects and planners to transition power to communities over time.
- We affirm community by advocating for resident stories to influence changes to urban systems, processes and physical space.
- Our organizational structure as an interdisciplinary team, and our focus on cross-sector collaboration, is to bring cohesion and flexibility to current, disconnected urban processes.
Guiding Principles
The Public’s Right to Space
We focus on community strategy at different scales of the built environment for systems change. Through the design of spaces, processes, and policy we assert the public’s right to space.
Our value is as intermediaries
We navigate systems of government & bureaucracy, translate policy, and challenge development procedures that are designed to undermine community agency.
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The Preserve LA
1370 N St Andrews Pl
Los Angeles, CA 90028