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# Attend an Artist's Workshop on Zoning Laws in Los Angeles
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/attend-an-artists-workshop-on-zoning-laws-in-los-angeles/
- Published: 2017-03-09T22:06:15.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:27:45.000Z
- Description: This Saturday, Rosten Woo will lead a workshop on zoning that aims to answer the questions, "Who does it serve and why should you care?"
- Author: Matt Stromberg
- Tags: Art, Events, Rosten Woo, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:23 (2016, 2017, part 2)

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Rosten Woo presents the workshop ‘What is Affordable Housing?’ for LA Poverty Department’s project The Back 9 on January 7, 2017\. (photo by Henriëtte Brouwers, courtesy LA Poverty Department)

The designer, writer, and educator [Rosten Woo](http://rostenwoo.biz/?ref=hyperallergic.com) is organizing a multidisciplinary exhibition with the Los Angeles Poverty Department. Titled [*The Back 9: Golf and Zoning Policy in Los Angeles*](https://www.lapovertydept.org/projects/back9/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*,* it will examine the policies that have shaped, and continue to shape, the city’s development. The exhibition, opening in May, will be designed as a mini-golf course, highlighting the power dynamics at play in land use approaches, zoning, and urban planning.

May seems far away, but in the meantime Woo is organizing a series of free workshops and talks leading up to the opening of *The Back 9*. This Saturday, Woo will lead a [workshop on zoning](https://www.lapovertydept.org/rosten-woos-workshop-what-is-zoning-rezoning-skid-row-presented-by-dept-city-planning/?ref=hyperallergic.com) that aims to answer the questions, “Who does it serve and why should you care?” It will involve games and activities created by Woo when he was director of the [Center for Urban Pedagogy](http://welcometocup.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com), including [building a city of blocks](http://welcometocup.org/file%5Fcolumns/0000/0530/cup-whatiszoning-guidebook.pdf?ref=hyperallergic.com) that adheres to height and use regulations, and a [role-playing exercise](http://blocksandlots.net/sample-page/?ref=hyperallergic.com) that envisions neighborhood planning through the eyes of various residents.

**When:** Saturday, March 11, 3–5pm  
**Where:** Skid Row History Museum & Archive (250 South Broadway, Downtown, Los Angeles)

*More info* [*here*](https://www.lapovertydept.org/rosten-woos-workshop-what-is-zoning-rezoning-skid-row-presented-by-dept-city-planning/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*