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Urban Planning - Mixed Use Development

Mix-Used Development In Downtown Los Angeles

Downtown mixed-use developments are solutions to solve

urban downtown challenges and impact the economy in

attracting business, people, investment, and tourist.

Downtown Los Angeles has gain success in changing zoning

ordinance to adaptive reuse. The private and public sectors

are working together to revitalize this area for

opportunity in many aspects. A dynamitic downtown will be

complete with addition of L.A Live, a mixed-use project

that will have entertainment, shopping, dinning, jobs, and

residential accommodations agglomerate together.

The mixed-use description is creating an urban

environment to attract people to live, work and play in the

same area. The mixed-use theory can be arranged in

different techinques, the buildings (one use above

another), the street (one use next to another) or the

neighborhood (groups of uses next to others)."Vital places

often have a mix of uses which involves different people

using the same parts of a building or place at different

times of the day, as well as different uses happening in

different parts of a building or space at the same

time."(http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm24.htm) Advantages of

mixed-use developments to reduce traffic, intergrating

residences, offices, and shopping, into concentrated common

areas' can reduce and elminate vechical trips. Today major

business coporations/residental developments have located

offices near shops, banks, and restaurants to save their

employees time during break.
 
In recent years mixed-use developments has provided

Downtown Los Angeles with positive economic impacts. The

downtown has increasing business revenues, jobs, wages, and

tax revenues which are finical gains for the city. The city

of Los Angeles is aggressively marketing this area to

attribute and attract regional, national, and international...