Everyone has those skills in them, but its hard to be aspirational and think big at the traditionally institutional meetings.. I excelled at interior design. Through art-based three-dimensional modeling and interactive workshops, PLACE IT! Living in Europe reaffirmed my love of cities. There were about 75 low-income Latino residents for an Eastside transportation meeting. Social cohesion is the degree of connectedness within and among individuals, communities, and institutions. The streets provide Latinos a social space and opportunity for economic survival by allowing them to sell items and/or their labor. The only majority-minority district where foreign-born Latinos did not witness higher rates of turnout than non-Latinos was the 47th (Sanchez). As such, a group of us began to meet informally once a month on Sundays in LA to discuss how we can incorporate our professional work with our cultural values. The network is a project of the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at UT Health San Antonio. Five major forms of transportation infrastructure, like highways and freight lines, surround and bisect the city, cutting South Colton off physically, visually, and mentally. is a national Latino-focused organization that creates culturally relevant and research-based stories and tools to inspire people to drive healthy changes to policies, systems, and environments for Latino children and families. They illustrate how Latinos create a place, Rojas said. Through this method he has engaged thousands of people by facilitating over four hundred workshops and building over fifty interactive models around the world - from the streets of New York and San Francisco, to Mexico, Canada, Europe, and South America. Present-day Chicano- or . Today hundreds of residents us this jogging path daily. So Rojas created a series of one- to two-minute videos from his experiences documenting the Latino built environment in many of these communities. Therefore I use street photography and objects to help Latinos and non-Latinos to reflect, visualize, and articulate the rich visual, spatial, and sensory landscape.