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Playa Vista Redesign

Assignment No. 4

Andrew Reke

PPD 282 Urban Design

Sunday, June 02, 2013

Section 1: Project Description

This fairly large eastern portion of Playa Vista has been redesigned as part regional office center and primarily an urban

housing project with some limited mixed use applications. There is a regional portion which is primarily offices as well as

a mixed use heart at the core of the project area. As a basic overview, there is approximately 3.7 million square feet of 

office space, 610,000 square feet of retail-commerce, and around 13,600 dwelling units, mostly in medium density

districts. Specific square footages and dwelling units can be found in the table in Section 2, further on. A set of gridded

streets interconnects the different portions of the site. These street sections can be seen in Section 3, further on in this

document.

Section 2: Project Stats

Below you will find some basic project development statistics.

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Major Use Specific Use Square Footage Dwelling Units

Civic 283,140 0

School 87,120

Library 174,240

Garden Meeting Hall 21,780

Office 3,659,040 0

Low Density 130,680

Medium Density 1,089,000

High Density 1,219,680Plus: Mixed Use 1,219,680

Retail 609,840 0

Neighborhood 130,680

Community -

Regional 130,680

Plus: Mixed Use 348,480

Mixed Use 2,787,840 678

Retail+Office 1,393,920 0

Sub: Retail 174,240

Sub: Office 1,219,680

Retail+Residential 1,393,920 678

Sub: Retail 174,240

Sub: Residential 1,219,680 678

Residential 16,196,256 13,587

Single Family  183,600 102

Sub: Detached 97,200 54

Sub: Attached 86,400 48

Medium Density  9,387,180 7,487

High Density  6,625,476 5,998

Open Space 773,190 0

Sheltered Habitat 392,040

Park 381,150

Total 22,229,316 14,265

Section 3: Street SectionsThere are 5 basic street sections for my redesign project. They are represented in the graphics below. There are

two major types of streets intended as entry ways into the site and two minor types of streets intended as connecting

streets inside the site.

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Multi-way Boulevard

The multi-way boulevard is intended as the type of streets used for the two major entrances into the site. First is the

Hughes Boulevard entrance from Jefferson Boulevard. The other is the extension of La Cienaga into the central section

of the site I’ve chosen. This extension is named Central Avenue. 

There are three carriageways depicted in this section including two carriageways that are shared spaces next to the

sidewalks. The central carriageway has 4 through lanes and one lane which alternates between a turn lane or median.

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Main Street 

The main street type of street is the type used on Hughes Avenue and the Grosvenor Boulevard extension until Hughes

Avenue.

This type of road has not only ample pedestrian space, but also, has bi-directional buffered bike lanes. The central

carriage way is one lane in each direction with a bi-directional turn lane at center.

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Regular Street 

The majority of the streets in the neighborhood are this type of street with 10’ sidewalks on both sides of the street and

two through and two parking lanes.

 Alley-Service Street 

This type of street is only used in the North-eastern sector of the neighborhood as it is a street which allows connection

from parking areas to major streets or is used as a service lane behind large buildings.

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Pathways

This particular type of street is a pedestrianized and bicycle pathway which is indicated in the plan in violet.