Hundreds of miles of high-voltage transmission lines run above ground in Los Angeles today.
Together their linear easements form the foundations of one of the world’s largest urban park networks.
Parks, Powerlines , and Open Spaces is a proposal to consolidate fragmented land easements into more than 400 miles of continuous linear park network for Los Angeles County.
The spaces of this network are governed by an afterthought of zoning.
A few lines in the county code and some arbitrary distances from private companies were all that was required for landscapes to form.
Today the transmission lines support many distinct functions within the corridor-ecologies of their easements.
The maps below identify the major existing biomes within the network.
Exposure and access to these places is the right and need of every citizen.
The ability to traverse the landscape is the need and right of every wild creature.
The 1930 plan was rejected. Los Angeles expanded unchecked to become 88 cities and the most populous county in America.
For more on the specific proposals, projects, research, and documentation for Parks, Powerlines, and Open Spaces for Los AngelesCounty see the links at the top of the page.
