Mayor Eric Garcetti seeks artist to help reduce L.A.'s pedestrian fatalities

2015-10-29T15:49:00-04:00

Spiffing up materials the city puts out to promote safe driving “is definitely not what this is about,” Reynolds said. “It's going much deeper into the way we think about designing the streets. Art has the power to get people to sit up and pay attention and jolt them out of their normal ways of thinking. We can infuse unexpected elements into the design of the streets and the way of moving through the streets.”

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• Seeking identity through city fonts

• From California to Texas, car culture is losing its monopoly

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Mayor Eric Garcetti seeks artist to help reduce L.A.'s pedestrian fatalities