Heritage Parkscape Collection

The Heritage Parkscape will link the Los Angeles State Historic Park at the Cornfield, the Río de Los Angeles State Park at Taylor Yard, El Pueblo de Los Angeles, the Los Angeles River, the Great Wall of Los Angeles, and over 100 other recreational, cultural, historical and environmental resources in the heart of Los Angeles. See a flickr mashup with images and text of the Heritage Parkscape.

Public art projects including murals, photo exhibits, and installations on the ground and on the web, school art projects, oral histories, and theater will be part of this living legacy. Public transit will take children and their families and friends from the Heritage Parkscape to the beach, forests, mountains, and other wilderness and recreation areas. “They should not be treated as isolated, separate parks but as one continuous parkway system,” Robert García told the Daily Breeze. “This is a wonderful opportunity. Los Angeles is hungry for its history.” Gordon Smith, Refurbishing L.A.’s Soul, Daily Breeze, Dec. 6, 2006.

The Heritage Parkscape will serve as a "family album" to commemorate the struggles, hopes, and triumphs of the Native Americans, settlers, and immigrants who entered Los Angeles through this area.

See related maps and demographics.

The Heritage Parkscape is inspired in part by the Olmsted Report and the Cornfield Advisory Committee Report. The Heritage Parkscape is a collaborative effort between Judy Baca and SPARC, Prof. Fabian Wagmister and REMAP, and The City Project. The flickr mashup is produced by Nicolas Garcia with the work of Robert Garcia, Prof. Fabian Wagmister, Nicolas Garcia, Erica Flores Baltodano, Julie Ehrlich, Taylor Fitz-Gibbon, and Alejandro Wagmister.

The Heritage Parkscape is made possible in part by the generous support of the Ford Foundation, John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, Resources Legacy Fund Foundation, Surdna Foundation, Whole Systems Foundation, and Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy.