Parks in Northeast LA River Neighborhoods

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This work is intended to help serve the community organizations and residents advocate for their park-related needs. As such, all of the data is open source and has been made available below. The data was compiled using open source data platforms through local governments and organizations, in some cases it was then analyzed and processed by the author for the purposes of spatial analysis. 

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Thank you to our team and partners!

Special thanks to:

Clockshop - Julie Meltzer and Darío Herrera 

USC SLAB - Annette Kim

LA Walks - Alex Ramirez 

Our project team - Gavin Derleth, Jocelyn Henriquez, D'Ella Heschmeyer, Sophia Knappertz, Caleb Pak, and Emily Sanchez

References

California State Parks. "RIO DE LOS ANGELES STATE PARK General Plan and Final Environmental Impact Report Volume 1". https://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/21299/files/Rdlaspfinalgp_and_eir_volume1.pdf. Accessed November 2024. 

California State Parks. "The Bowtie - Rio de Los Angeles State Park". https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30530. Accessed November 2024. 

City of Los Angeles. "Community DASH Routes". https://data-lahub.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/e605c912d31c444d94c29fe831111a0f_8/explore. Accessed November 2024.

City of Los Angeles. "Community DASH Stops". https://data-lahub.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/27cb6500ebe7475092f69d393e147921_7/explore?location=33.976874%2C-118.361749%2C10.25. Accessed November 2024.

City of Los Angeles. "Downtown DASH Routes". https://data-lahub.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/62d45e3661f0450aa7261489928399a5_14/explore?location=34.021313%2C-118.505558%2C9.97. Accessed November 2024.

City of Los Angeles. "Downtown DASH Stops". https://data-lahub.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/6d6babc5135e403288cc52b17fc1ba30_13/explore?location=34.042563%2C-118.261365%2C13.68. Accessed November 2024.

County of Los Angeles. "Countywide Parks and Open Space (Public - Hosted)". https://egis-lacounty.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/lacounty::countywide-parks-and-open-space-public-hosted/about. 

County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation. "EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE LOS ANGELES COUNTYWIDE COMPREHENSIVE PARKS & RECREATION NEEDS ASSESSMENT". https://lacountyparkneeds.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Executive-Summary.pdf. Accessed November 2024. 

Google Earth Satellite Imagery. Accessed November 2024.

LA Metro. "GIS Data". https://developer.metro.net/gis-data/. Accessed November 2024.  

US Census, Department of Commerce. "TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2016, county, Los Angeles County, CA, Area Hydrography County-based Shapefile". https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/tiger-line-shapefile-2016-county-los-angeles-county-ca-area-hydrography-county-based-shapefile. Accessed November 2024.

Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG). "Bike Routes - SCAG Region". https://hub.scag.ca.gov/datasets/04039b9365ac45acb5a385d2fed3ecf3_0/about. Accessed November 2024.