She Makes the Ordinary Extraordinary.
Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
Associate Provost for Academic Planning
Sidewalks. Bus stops. Parking lots. Transit stations. For Professor of Urban Planning Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, these ordinary, overlooked spaces of everyday life are the key to a healthier, more walkable and more livable city. Parklets 鈥� tiny parks created from traffic triangles and surplus parking spots 鈥� are one of her favorite antidotes to empty sidewalks and lifeless neighborhoods. Working with city government and community groups, Loukaitou-Sideris and the 江南体育 Luskin School鈥檚 鈥淐omplete Streets Initiative鈥� helped to open the first two parklets in downtown L.A. Cities around the world are implementing the idea, inspired in part by the toolkit she co-authored, Reclaiming the Right of Way.