Farmlab Public SalonRobert GottliebFriday, December 7, 2007 @ NoonFree-of-Charge

Reinventing L.A.: Nature and Community in the Global City

About the Salon

Join Robert Gottlieb (and likely some other folks from the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute) for this Farmlab Public Salon.

Los Angeles -- perceived to be the place without a sense of place -- might seem inhospitable to efforts to connect with nature and community. This Salon -- Reinventing L.A.: Nature and Community in the Global City -- drawing on the recently published book with that same name, will describe how a handful of imaginative and innovative social movements have coalescaed around issues of water, cars and freeways, land use, immigrants, and globalization, to seek to create a more livable and just region.

About the Salon Participant

Robert Gottlieb is the Director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute (UEPI) and Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy at Occidental College. He is the author or co-author of eleven books, including Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement; Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change, and The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City. He is currently working on a new book on the topic of Food Justice, with his colleagues at the Center for Food & Justice, which is a division of UEPI.

Image of ArroyoFest courtesy Robert Gottlieb, from the cover of his forthcoming book.