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Trove Of Architectural Photos Shows When LA’s Skyline Became Modern
At the dawn of the 1960s, Los Angeles lacked a true city skyline. A long-standing 13-storey height restriction, in force since 1904 and only recently repealed in 1956, had created a downtown whose only vertical accent was the 32-storey City Hall.
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Trolley Tracks Once Ran Through The Beaches Of Los Angeles
Trolleys once rivalled the crashing surf in the soundscape of Southland beaches. Along much of the Southern California coast from Santa Monica to Redondo and from Long Beach to Newport, a red dot — a distant Pacific Electric car — would appear down the shore. As it neared, the click-clack of the wheels moving over…
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Did Disneyland’s Main Street, USA, Inspire Better Urban Design?
Walt Disney didn’t set out to revolutionise urban design when he created Disneyland — that’s what his Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, or EPCOT, was for. But whereas EPCOT never became anything more than a sort of permanent world’s fair, it was Disneyland and especially its Main Street, USA, that ultimately changed the way we…
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The Breathtaking Beauty Of Los Angeles At Night
Has Los Angeles finally found an answer to the title sequence of Woody Allen’s Manhattan? Revealing the beauty of nighttime Los Angeles in all its glory, Colin Rich’s mesmerising time lapse video “City Lights” plays off the interaction between two kinds of night light: the twinkling stars above the horizon and the pulsating city below.