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The Back Nine (2017)

In 2017, the City of LA began to rezone each of the city’s Community Plan Areas, beginning with Downtown Los Angeles. The rezoning of Downtown LA has huge ramifications for the community of Skid Row. One of the city’s largest concentrations of low-income housing as well as an epicenter of the city’s homelessness crisis.

In conjunction with several other projects (see Our Skid Row) designed to help organized and represent the viewpoint of Skid Row residents in these planning discussions, I designed and built this nine-hole golf course in collaboration with the Los Angeles Poverty Department. It served as the set for their play of the same name, and functioned as a playable nine-hole golf course.

Each hole in the course tells a story about the history and future of real estate development, housing, and homelessness in Los Angeles’s Skid Row. The golf course was built and designed with help from Tiffanie Tran and LeeBuild.

Related Projects:

How to House 7,000 People in Skid Row (2020)

Our Skid Row Urban Design Sourcebook + Map (2016)

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