2024-05-04T15:23:35-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149979836/listen-to-next-up-the-la-river-mini-session-6-julia-meltzer-clockshop-and-elizabeth-timme-la-m-s Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2016-11-22T14:46:00-05:00 >2016-12-13T20:13:19-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/z0/z0a5f5nn5k3xxprt.png?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>For this Mini-Session from our Next Up: The LA River event, Nicholas Korody spoke with Elizabeth Timme, co-director of the urban design and architecture non-profit <a href="http://archinect.com/mas.la" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LA-M&aacute;s</a>, and Julia Meltzer, director and founder of non-profit arts organization, Clockshop.</p><p>Both Clockshop and LA-M&aacute;s are located within Elysian Valley, aka Frogtown&mdash;a sliver of a neighborhood bordered by the LA River, the 5 and the 2 freeways. In recent years, Frogtown (predominantly a low-density neighborhood of single-family homes) has become a major focus in LA conversations about gentrification and development, and both Timme's and Meltzer's work is heavily invested in their context. Clockshop (in collaboration with California State Parks) has its HQ in Frogtown and hosts art events in the Bowtie, an undeveloped plot of land along the river. In 2015, LA-M&aacute;s led a community "co-visioning process" (the 'Futuro de Frogtown') to determine the kind of development decisions residents were concerned about.</p><p>Korody spoke with b...</p>