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The most tenacious of all clichés about Los Angeles is that it is a place with no past. Bernard-Henri Lévy, in his 2006 travelogue, “American Vertigo,” called L.A. a “city without a history . . . whose historicity is nothing more than an ageless remorse.” A decade earlier, the urban geographer Michael Dear spoke of a “city without a past,” one that... See more

The Hidden Histories Lost in the Los Angeles Fires

Los Angeles in 1927 was America’s fastest-growing city, and its richest when measured per capita. The population of greater Los Angeles, including the unincorporated communities of Beverly Hills and Santa Monica, had more than doubled in a decade to almost 2.5 million, and those lucky citizens were 60 percent better off than the average American el

Bill Bryson • One Summer

Film and television production in Los Angeles has fallen by nearly 40% over the last decade, according to FilmLA, a non-profit that tracks the region’s production. At the same time, governments around the world have offered more generous tax credits and cash rebates to lure productions, and capture a greater share of the $248bn that Ampere Analysis... See more

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Christopher Kai • Big Game Hunting

Conceptually, Los Angeles is unequaled. The most populous county in the most populous state, it is the United States’ seat of destitution and gated communities. Capital of incarceration and liberal policies.

Rosecrans Baldwin • Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles

making L.A. the first American city to host the summer games three times.

Rosecrans Baldwin • Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles

THE DIALECTIC OF ORDINARY DISASTER Once or twice each decade, Hawaii sends Los Angeles a big, wet kiss. Sweeping far south of its usual path,

Mike Davis • Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster

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Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire

Over the next few weeks you’re going to hear Governor Gavin Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass, and the Democratic Party tell you that there’s nothing that could have been done to prevent the fires from destroying Los Angeles. Those will be lies. They could have prevented them. Governor Newsom cut the funding for preventing fores... See more

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