StreetsBlogLA: "'Los Angeles had a sustainable past, going all the way back to the original adobe structures that started the city,' [Mayor Eric Garcetti] said to the 375 people in the audience. 'We paved that over. We need to get back to our roots by, for example, turning our faces towards the river instead of turning our backs on it.' The mayor was just one of roughly 80 speakers at the two-day conference, which started Monday morning."
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