Awarded UCLA Library Research Prize for Special Collections (2021)
Increasingly high temperatures in Southern California often result in an unequal experience to heat, with lower-income communities and communities of color disproportionately facing the negative effects of heat. Although public parks offer a prime avenue for heat mitigation, features of parks are not equally distributed.
This study focuses on the central Los Angeles neighborhood of Westlake and analyzes its two largest parks: MacArthur and Lafayette park.
This project was completed by Ashley Kenney, Alice Lu, Sophie Marencik, and Alex Nechaev.