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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

“No place on Earth offers greater security to life and greater freedom from natural disasters than Southern California.” Los Angeles Times, 1934

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

Rosecrans Baldwin

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The Hidden Histories Lost in the Los Angeles Fires

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

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

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

The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge. The Result Was a Fiasco.