Los Angeles

Three students from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs are gaining real-world experience this year as David Bohnett Fellows working in the offices of Mayor Eric Garcetti at L.A. City Hall.

Architecture professor Thom Mayne says that adding density around Wilshire Boulevard could accommodate 1 million new people in Los Angeles while promoting sustainability.

The drought is highlighting disparities in the price of water that vary widely, depending on who is supplying it in this archaic and complex water delivery system serving Southern California.

More than 60 UCLA volunteers pitched in to help veterans and the homeless celebrate at the West Los Angeles VA campus.

As life-changing as these new projects that voters approved on Nov. 8 might be, one of the region’s most critical infrastructure needs is still being largely ignored: water.

New reports show how to add 1.5 million people to the county while preserving the vast majority of the area’s character and staying lower density than Manhattan.

Part of the naming and dedication celebration of the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, the exhibition examines Jewish history in one of L.A.’s most multiethnic neighborhoods.

Gordon Davidson, the late artistic director of the Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum, began his career in Los Angeles at UCLA and the university library is home to his papers.

The UCLA in Downtown Los Angeles event was the culmination of three weeks of local advocacy efforts by students, faculty, staff and alumni who canvassed the county.

The Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies, or LENS, aims to spur new thinking about the role of multimedia storytelling to drive sustainability.

Mother of four Debra Duardo earned three UCLA degrees and now heads the Los Angeles County Office of Education.

In September and October, UCLA advocates are fanning out across L.A. County to speak to 20 elected officials, or their designated staff, about the strong bond UCLA has with communities in their districts.

Behind the move to bring mindfulness into the school day is the UCLA Center for Child Anxiety Resilience Education and Support (CARES), which sponsors this and other programs that support student resilience.

New website tracks incarceration by neighborhood where the inmate lives and totals how much is spent by community.

The UCLA Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program is training residents to qualify for jobs testing and handling hazardous waste materials in a multimillion-dollar cleanup of lead dust contamination.

Mindfulness, a practice that’s growing in popularity, has made its way into classrooms in Watts, thanks to the UCLA Center for Child Anxiety Resilience and Support.

A 1964 interview with Martin Luther King Jr. is one of many historical moments from KTLA-TV in a new online portal created by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

A new toolkit created by the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation is designed to help communities navigate paths to improving the areas immediately around the river.

The acclaimed scholar of immigrant and low-wage workforce issues says he looks forward to studying the gig economy, young workers and immigrant workers.

UCLA urban planners create an interactive mapping tool to analyze whether developments near Los Angeles light-rail and subway projects displace people.

Two urban planners at UCLA have taken a close look at the effects of cultural revitalization on two adjoining, but vastly different areas in downtown Los Angeles.

The associate director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies says the bus rapid transit line serving the San Fernando Valley has in part been a victim of its own success.

In industrial and multi-family housing, the optimism of the past few years continued, according to a survey by the UCLA Anderson Forecast and the Allen Matkins law firm.

UCLA Luskin study says that there aren’t enough parks for senior citizens and those that exist don’t do enough to accommodate them, especially in low-income areas.

The University of California, with assistance from educators at UCLA's Center X, is sponsoring a new summer program that makes learning math and science fun for 100 youngsters, thanks to a partnership with Bethany Baptist Church in the Crenshaw area.