In Los Angeles, urban boundaries, shaped by capitalist development, restrictive infrastructure, and fragmented governance practices, reinforce spatial and social divisions across the city. These conditions often lead to neglect, fragmentation, and disinvestment. However, by leveraging components of control and separation—such as jurisdictional edges, zoning lines, and infrastructural barriers—and making them visible and interactive, boundaries can be transformed into active sites of resistance. Through this process, exclusionary urban development is challenged, and a new model of public space emerges—one that prioritizes collective agency, civic engagement, and shared ownership within the urban fabric. Boundaries become catalysts for connection, not containment or exclusion.
Boundary Acts
