We had the pleasure of teaming with PSOMAS, the Bureau of Engineering, and the Departments of Parks & Recreation and Sanitation in creating the vision of Councilwoman Jan Perry: The South L.A. Wetlands Park. Funded by Prop. O, this historic rail yard was transformed into a sprawling urban wetland comprising a nine-acre storm water improvement, [...]

Interviewed by Lynda Lopez for Latina’s Making Us Proud feature. On stands now!

Piggyback Yard has won a Merit Award for Urban Design from the AIA California Council.

September 16,  2011 – The ML+A Team took second place in From Sands to City – An Art Exhibition held in Holon, Israel.

Mia Lehrer was featured in Vanity Fair’s Spotlight on Innovation sponsored by BMW. Find it on shelves now in the September issue!

Mia Lehrer will be presenting on Urban Agriculture at the 2011 IFLA Congress in Zurich Switzerland. Three ML+A projects will be featured at the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA). These include: “Digging in the Dirt: The LA Natural History Museum embarks on first-of-its-kind urban biodiversity research”, “Peri-Urban Phenomena: Reclaiming an industrial corridor in downtown [...]

Mia Lehrer will be teaching a two-day course on Landscape Urbanism as part of the University of Southern California School of Architecture Executive Education Program.

Three ML+A projects will be featured at the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) World Congress in Zurich.

Mia Lehrer is a panelist for a session called, “The Power of Partnerships: How Vision, Planning and Finding Consensus Led to the Annenberg Community Beach House”.

ML+A is a co-sponsor and speaker of Earth Day Latino at Los Angeles State Historic Park located at 1245 North Spring Street in Los Angeles. Activities include urban camping, bonfire and barbecue, colonial era floral planting, screening of An Inconvenient Truth, multimedia and interpretive presentations, LA River walkathon, green jobs career fair, and Two Rivers [...]