We Built This City Los Angeles

·Reading Level: Grades 3-6 ·Learn the history of the land where Los Angeles is now located, the Tongva people, the Mexican, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Japanese, European, Armenian, Iranian and Russian people who helped settle the city, its metamorphosis into an entertainment and cinematic hub, and interesting sights to see when visiting LA like Dodger Stadium, the Hollywood sign, and Chinatown. ·Includes historical and current pictures of Los Angeles, chronology of events in LA (spanning 1771 - 2028 the year LA is scheduled to host the Olympics), chapter notes, suggested reading, glossary. ·Features maps of the land and the city.

"Its intelligent combination of essays reveals much about Los Angeles which does not always find its way into socio-historical texts about the area. The editors' remarks preceding each essay expertly bind the book together. I suspect it will wind up as one of the more dog-eared volumes on my shelf."—Mayor Tom Bradley of Los Angeles

Los Angeles has grown from a scattered collection of towns and villages to one of the largest megacities in the world. The editors of THE CITY have assembled a variety of essays examining the built environment and human dynamics of this extraordinary modern city, emphasizing the dramatic changes that have occurred since 1960. 58 illustrations.

The full story of the birth, growth, and restoration of Los Angeles City Hall.

Los Angeles was founded in 1781 as one of the two original Spanish pueblos in California. At the time of statehood in 1851, Los Angeles began to reconsider its "cow town" condition, and gradually transformed an American city into the magnificent metropolis we know today. Drawn from the collections of the University of Southern California, the Los Angeles Public Library, and the Los Angeles City Archives, Jeffrey Samudio and Portia Lee record the history of a community that established itself culturally as it grew exponentially. By 1945, the small town that had begun with 28 square miles in the late 19th century had grown to 450 square miles through almost 100 annexations. Businessmen constructed a downtown streetscape whose architecture elicited envy in other cities, hotels catered to visitors with such enthusiasm that guests eventually returned with ambitious schemes of their own, and the construction of an elaborate freeway system suddenly made Los Angeles a drive-in city.

Los Angeles in the 1930s returns to print an invaluable document of Depression-era Los Angeles, illuminating a pivotal moment in L.A.’s history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were creating the images and associations—and the mystique—for which the City of Angels is still known. Many books in one, Los Angeles in the 1930s is both a genial guide and an addictively readable history, revisiting the Spanish colonial period, the Mexican period, the brief California Republic, and finally American sovereignty. It is also a compact coffee table book of dazzling monochrome photography. These whose haunting visions suggest the city we know today and illuminate the booms and busts that marked L.A.’s past and continue to shape its future.

Gaining their freedom and continuing their efforts to build the city of their dreams, Rick and Evie are confronted by a terrifying new Mastercorp weapon that has the power to turn anything into stinking garbage.

A look at urban transformation through the architecture and land development of large-scale residential projects.