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‘It’s kind of a melting pot’: how one US city transformed a highway into a leafy oasis

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‘It’s kind of a melting pot’: how one US city transformed a highway into a leafy oasis
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The BLVD is home to 250 enterprises, from banks, tattoo shops and restaurants to museums and a performing arts centrePassing through the Mojave desert on State Route 14, going by landscapes Hollywood uses to represent alien planets, a driver might not expect to find a walkable, tree-lined boulevard.


But there are nine beautiful, leafy blocks on West Lancaster Boulevard, a piece of what used to be Highway 14. They were redeveloped as part of a mixed-use urban streetscape in the city of Lanca

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