Los Angeles City of Los Angeles Los Angeles horizon Los Angeles City Hall Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport Downtown Los Angeles skyline, Echo Park, Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport, Venice Beach, Vincent Thomas Bridge, Los Angeles City Hall, Hollywood Sign Flag of Los Angeles Flag Official seal of Los Angeles Location in Los Angeles County in the state of California Location in Los Angeles County in the state of California Los Angeles is positioned in California Los Angeles - Los Angeles Los Angeles Body Los Angeles City Council Los Angeles (Listeni/l s nd l s/, Spanish for "The Angels"; Spanish pronunciation: [los aexeles]), officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L.A., is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California.
With a census-estimated 2015 populace of 3,971,883, it is the second-most crowded city in the United States (after New York City) and the most crowded city in California.
Located in a large coastal watershed surrounded on three sides by mountain peaks reaching up to and over 10,000 feet (3,000 m), Los Angeles covers an region of about 469 square miles (1,210 km2). The town/city is the focal point of the larger Los Angeles urbane region and the Greater Los Angeles Area region, which contain 13 million and over 18 million citizens , in the order given, as of 2010, making it one of the most crowded urbane areas in the world as well as the second-largest in the United States and the most populated urban region in the United States.
Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States.
Historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would turn into Alta California.
In 1848, at the end of the Mexican American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States.
Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4, 1850, five months before California accomplished statehood.
The discernment of petroleum in the 1890s brought rapid expansion to the city. The culmination of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, bringing water from Eastern California, later assured the city's continued rapid growth.
Nicknamed the "City of Angels", Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic range, and widespread metropolis.
Los Angeles also has a diverse economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine, and research.
The Los Angeles combined statistical region (CSA) has a gross urbane product (GMP) of $831 billion (as of 2008), making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York urbane areas.
The Los Angeles region also hosted the 1994 FIFA men's World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA women's World Cup final match; both games were held at the Rose Bowl in the close-by city of Pasadena.
Main article: History of Los Angeles See also: Timeline of Los Angeles and Los Angeles in the 1920s Chumash citizens lived in Los Angeles before Europeans settled there.
The Los Angeles coastal region was first settled by the Tongva (Gabrielenos) and Chumash Native American tribes thousands of years ago.
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, a Portuguese-born explorer, claimed the region of southern California for the Spanish Empire of the Kingdom of Spain in 1542 while on an official military seeking expedition moving north along the Pacific coast from earlier colonizing bases of New Spain in Central and South America. Gaspar de Portola and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespi, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2, 1769. In 1771, Franciscan friar Junipero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcangel, the first mission in the area. On September 4, 1781, a group of forty-four pioneer known as "Los Pobladores" established the pueblo called "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"; in English it is "The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula".
The Queen of the Angels is an appellation of the Virgin Mary. Two-thirds of the pioneer were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small ranch town for decades, but by 1820, the populace had increased to about 650 residents. Today, the pueblo is memorialized in the historic precinct of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street, the earliest part of Los Angeles. During Mexican rule, Governor Pio Pico made Los Angeles Alta California's county-wide capital. Old Los Angeles Los Angeles Plaza in 1869, looking north towards Upper Town.
Old Los Angeles overlay The Old Aliso, enormous sycamore, historical motif of Los Angeles.
Government House, seat of the Asamblea when Los Angeles was the capital.
Athanasius' Episcopal Church, first Protestant church in Los Angeles, on Temple Road ("Salvation Alley").
Approximate run of the initial Los Angeles River bed, to current USC, through the former swamps of Leimert Park, and out to sea at Ballona Creek and Venice Beach.
Railroads appeared with the culmination of the Southern Pacific line to Los Angeles in 1876. Oil was identified in the town/city and encircling area in 1892, and by 1923, the discoveries had helped California turn into the country's biggest petroleum producer, accounting for about one-quarter of the world's oil output. By 1900, the populace had grown to more than 102,000, putting pressure on the city's waterworks. The culmination of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, under the oversight of William Mulholland, assured the continued expansion of the city. Due to clauses in the city's charter that effectively inhibited the City of Los Angeles from selling or providing water from the waterway to any region outside its borders, many adjoining town/city and communities became obliged to annex themselves into Los Angeles. In 1910, Hollywood consolidated into Los Angeles, with 10 movie companies already operating in the town/city at the time.
During World War II, Los Angeles was a primary center of state of war manufacturing, such as ship assembly and airplane .
Calship assembled hundreds of Liberty Ships and Victory Ships on Terminal Island, and the Los Angeles region was the command posts of six of the country's primary airplane manufacturers (Douglas Aircraft Company, Hughes Aircraft, Lockheed, North American Aviation, Northrop Corporation, and Vultee).
Following the end of World War II, Los Angeles interval more quickly than ever, widespread into the San Fernando Valley. The expansion of the Interstate Highway System amid the 1950s and 1960s helped subjugation suburban expansion and signaled the demise of the city's electrified rail system, once the world's largest.
It was the most harsh brawl in the city's history until the Los Angeles riots of 1992.
In 1969, Los Angeles became the place of birth of the Internet, as the first ARPANET transmission was sent from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to SRI in Menlo Park. See also: Los Angeles Basin; San Fernando Valley; Greater Los Angeles Area; and Los Angeles County, California Main article: List of districts and neighborhoods of Los Angeles More broadly, the town/city is divided into the following areas: Downtown Los Angeles, East Los Angeles and Northeast Los Angeles, South Los Angeles, the Harbor Area, Greater Hollywood, Wilshire, the Westside, and the San Fernando and Crescenta Valleys.
Drivers in Los Angeles suffer from one of the worst rush hour periods in the world, as stated to an annual traffic index by navigation fitness manufacturer, Tom - Tom.
Nonetheless, downtown Los Angeles itself has many buildings over 30 stories, with fourteen over 50 stories, and two over 70 stories (the tallest buildings west of Chicago-see List of tallest buildings in Los Angeles).
Also, Los Angeles is increasingly becoming a town/city of apartements clean water single family dwellings, especially in the dense inner town/city and Westside neighborhoods.
See also: List of sites of interest in the Los Angeles region and National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles, California Important landmarks in Los Angeles include the Hollywood Sign, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Capitol Records Building, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Angels Flight, Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Dolby Theatre, Griffith Observatory, Getty Center, Getty Villa, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Venice Canal Historic District and boardwalk, Theme Building, Bradbury Building, U.S.
Bank Tower, Wilshire Grand Center, Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles City Hall, Hollywood Bowl, Battleship USS Iowa, Watts Towers, Staples Center, Dodger Stadium, and Olvera Street.
Downtown Los Angeles at sunset The town/city of Los Angeles covers a total region of 502.7 square miles (1,302 km2), comprising 468.7 square miles (1,214 km2) of territory and 34.0 square miles (88 km2) of water. The town/city extends for 44 miles (71 km) longitudinally and for 29 miles (47 km) latitudinally.
Los Angeles is both flat and hilly.
The easterly end of the Santa Monica Mountains stretches from Downtown to the Pacific Ocean and separates the Los Angeles Basin from the San Fernando Valley.
Other hilly parts of Los Angeles include the Mt.
Further away, the highest point in the greater Los Angeles region is San Gorgonio Mountain, with a height of 11,503 feet (3,506 m).
The Los Angeles River, which is largely cyclic, is the major drainage channel.
Los Angeles is rich in native plant species partly because of its range of surroundings, including beaches, wetlands, and mountain peaks.
Many of these native species, such as the Los Angeles sunflower, have turn into so rare as to be considered endangered.
Although it is not native to the area, the official tree of Los Angeles is the Coral Tree (Erythrina caffra) and the official flower of Los Angeles is the Bird of Paradise (Strelitzia reginae). Mexican Fan Palms, Canary Island Palms, Queen Palms, Date Palms, and California Fan Palms are common in the Los Angeles area, although only the last is native.
Los Angeles is subject to earthquakes because of its locale on the Pacific Ring of Fire.
The geologic instability has produced various faults, which cause approximately 10,000 earthquakes annually in Southern California, though most of them are too small to be felt. The strike-slip San Andreas Fault fitness is positioned at the boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate, and is vulnerable to the "big one", a potentially large and damaging event. The Los Angeles watershed and urbane region are also at threat from blind thrust earthquakes. Major earthquakes that have hit the Los Angeles region include the 1933 Long Beach, 1971 San Fernando, 1987 Whittier Narrows, and the 1994 Northridge affairs.
Main article: Climate of Los Angeles Palms are common in Los Angeles due to its climate Los Angeles has plenty of sunlight throughout the year, with an average of only 35 days with calculable rain annually. The coastal region around Los Angeles has a climate that is comparable to coastal areas of southeastern Spain such as Alicante or Elche, in temperature range and variation, in sunlight hours and as well as annual rain levels.
The Los Angeles region is also subject to phenomena typical of a microclimate, causing extreme variations in temperature in close physical adjacency to each other.
Downtown Los Angeles averages 14.93 in (379 mm) of rain annually, which mainly occurs amid November through March, generally in the form of moderate precipitation showers, but sometimes as heavy rainfall amid winter storms.
The greatest snow flurry recorded in downtown Los Angeles was 2.0 inches (5 cm) on January 15, 1932. At the official downtown station, the highest recorded temperature is 113 F (45 C) on September 27, 2010, while the lowest is 28 F ( 2 C), on January 4, 1949. During autumn and winter, Santa Ana winds sometimes bring much warmer and drier conditions to Los Angeles, and raise the wildfire risk.
Climate data for Los Angeles (USC, Downtown), 1981 2010 normals, extremes 1877 present Climate data for Los Angeles (LAX), 1981 2010 normals, extremes 1944 present Climate data for Los Angeles (Canoga Park, in the San Fernando Valley) A view of Los Angeles veiled in smoke and fog A Gabrielino settlement in the region was called iyaang (written Yang-na by the Spanish), which has been interpreted as "poison oak place". Yang-na has also been interpreted as "the valley of smoke". Owing to geography, heavy reliance on automobiles, and the Los Angeles/Long Beach port complex, Los Angelesendures from air pollution in the form of smog.
The Los Angeles Basin and the San Fernando Valley are susceptible to atmospheric inversion, which holds in the exhausts from road vehicles, aircraft s, locomotives, shipping, manufacturing, and other sources. The smoke and fog season lasts from approximately May to October. While other large metros/cities rely on precipitation to clear smog, Los Angeles gets only 15 inches (380 mm) of precipitation each year: pollution accumulates over many consecutive days.
Issues of air character in Los Angeles and other primary cities led to the passage of early nationwide surroundingal legislation, including the Clean Air Act.
The number of Stage 1 smoke and fog alerts in Los Angeles has declined from over 100 per year in the 1970s to almost zero in the new millennium. Even with improvement, the 2006 and 2007 annual reports of the American Lung Association ranked the town/city as the most polluted in the nation with short-term particle pollution and year-round particle pollution. In 2008, the town/city was ranked the second most polluted and again had the highest year-round particulate pollution. The town/city met its goal of providing 20 percent of the city's power from renewable sources in 2010. The American Lung Association's 2013 survey rates the metro region as having the nation's worst smog, and fourth in both short-term and year-round pollution amounts. Climate change has already affected Los Angeles with a 4 degree average temperature rise from 1878 to 2005 with a UCLA study predicting that coastal areas will rise 3 to 4 degrees in temperature and urban areas 4 to 4.5 degrees. In 2014, the fire season never rather than in Southern California and studies have predicted that climate change will cause more incessant and larger fires by the end of the century. Climate change is also expected to affect sea levels which are expected to rise 5 to 24 inches from 2000 to 2050 dominant to higher storm surge and waves, which could result in more extensive flooding that could threaten critical coastal infrastructure. Los Angeles is also home to the nation's biggest urban petroleum field.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Los Angeles had a populace of 3,792,621. The populace density was 8,092.3 citizens per square mile (2,913.0/km ).
According to the 2010 United States Census, Los Angeles had a median homehold income of $49,497, with 22.0% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. Los Angeles is home to citizens from more than 140 countries speaking 224 different identified languages. Ethnic enclaves like Chinatown, Historic Filipinotown, Koreatown, Little Armenia, Little Ethiopia, Tehrangeles, Little Tokyo, Little Bangladesh and Thai Town furnish examples of the polyglot character of Los Angeles.
According to the 2010 Census, the ethnic makeup of Los Angeles included: 1,888,158 Whites (49.8%), 365,118 African Americans (9.6%), 28,215 Native Americans (0.7%), 426,959 Asians (11.3%), 5,577 Pacific Islanders (0.1%), 902,959 from other competitions (23.8%), and 175,635 (4.6%) from two or more competitions. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 1,838,822 persons (48.5%).
Non-Hispanic caucasians were 28.7% of the populace in 2010, compared to 86.3% in 1940. People of Mexican lineage make up the biggest ethnic group of Latinos at 31.9% of Los Angeles' population, followed by those of Salvadoran (6.0%) and Guatemalan (3.6%) heritage.
The Latino populace is spread throughout the town/city of Los Angeles and its urbane region but it is most heavily concentrated in the East Los Angeles, Northeast Los Angeles and Northwest Los Angeles regions, which has a long established Mexican-American and Central American community.
Chinese citizens , which make up 1.8% of Los Angeles' population, reside mostly outside of Los Angeles town/city limits and rather in the San Gabriel Valley of easterly Los Angeles County, but make a sizeable existence in the city, prominently in Chinatown.
Chinatown and Thaitown are also home to many Thais and Cambodians, which make up 0.3% and 0.1% of Los Angeles' population, in the order given.
Japanese comprise 0.9% of L.A.'s population, and have an established Little Tokyo in the city's downtown, and another momentous improve of Japanese Americans is positioned in the Sawtelle precinct of West Los Angeles.
Vietnamese make up 0.5% of Los Angeles' population.
The Los Angeles urbane region is home to a large Middle Eastern population, including Armenians and Iranians, many of whom live in enclaves like Little Armenia and Tehrangeles.
African Americans have been the dominant ethnic group in South Los Angeles, which has emerged as the biggest African American improve in the United States since the 1960s.
The neighborhoods of South LA with highest concentration of African Americans include Crenshaw, Baldwin Hills, Leimert Park, Hyde Park, Gramercy Park, Manchester Square and Watts. Apart from South Los Angeles, neighborhoods in the Central region of Los Angeles, such as Mid-City, Mid-Wilshire and Arlington Heights has a moderate-to-high concentration of African Americans as well.
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels is the mother cathedral for the Los Angeles archdiocese.
Built in 1956, the Los Angeles California Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the second biggest LDS temple in the world.
According to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center, Christianity is the most prevalently practiced religion in Los Angeles (65%). The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles leads the biggest archdiocese in the country. Cardinal Roger Mahony oversaw assembly of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, which opened in September 2002 in downtown Los Angeles. Construction of the cathedral marked a coming of age of the city's Catholic, heavily Latino community.
There are various Catholic churches and churches throughout Los Angeles.
In 2011 the once common but ultimately lapsed custom of conducting a procession and Mass in honour of Nuestra Senora de los Angeles in commemoration of the beginning of the City of Los Angeles in 1781 was revived by the Queen of Angels Foundation and its founder Mark Albert, with the support and approbation of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles as well as a several civic leaders. The recently revived custom is a continuation of the initial processions and Masses which commenced on the first anniversary of the beginning of Los Angeles in 1782 and continued for nearly a century after that.
With 621,000 Jews in the urbane region (490,000 in town/city proper), the region has the second biggest population of Jews in the United States. Many of Los Angeles' Jews now live on the Westside and in the San Fernando Valley, though Boyle Heights and Northwest Los Angeles once had large Jewish populations.
The Breed Street Shul in East Los Angeles, assembled in 1923, was the biggest Jewish house of worship west of Chicago in its early decades. (It is no longer a sacred space and is being converted to a exhibition and improve center.) The Kabbalah Centre also has a existence in the city. The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel was established in Los Angeles by Aimee Semple Mc - Pherson in 1927 and remains headquartered there to this day.
The Los Angeles California Temple, the second biggest temple directed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is on Santa Monica Boulevard in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles.
The Hollywood region of Los Angeles also has a several significant headquarters, churches, and the Celebrity Center of Scientology.
Because of Los Angeles' large multi-ethnic population, a wide range of faiths are practiced, including Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Sikhism, Baha'i, various Eastern Orthodox Churches, Sufism and others.
Further information: Los Angeles County, California Economy The economy of Los Angeles is driven by global trade, entertainment (television, motion pictures, video games, music recording, and production), aerospace, technology, petroleum, fashion, apparel, and tourism. Other momentous industries include finance, telecommunications, law, healthcare, and transportation.
Los Angeles is the biggest manufacturing center in the United States. The adjoining ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach together comprise the fifth-busiest port in the world and the most momentous port in the Western Hemisphere and is vital to trade inside the Pacific Rim. The Los Angeles Long Beach urbane region has a gross urbane product of $866 billion (as of 2015), making it the third-largest economic urbane region in the world, after Tokyo and New York. Los Angeles has been classified an "Alpha world city" as stated to a 2012 study by a group at Loughborough University. The biggest employers in the town/city as of 2009 were, in descending order, the City of Los Angeles, the County of Los Angeles, and University of California, Los Angeles. The University of Southern California (USC) is the city's fourth biggest employer and the biggest private zone employer. Main article: Arts and culture of Los Angeles Los Angeles is often billed as the "Creative Capital of the World", because one in every six of its inhabitants works in a creative trade and there are more artists, writers, filmmakers, actors, dancers and musicians living and working in Los Angeles than any other town/city at any time in history. Los Angeles plays host to the annual Academy Awards and is the site of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, the earliest film school in the United States. The performing arts play a primary part in Los Angeles' cultural identity.
According to the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation, "there are more than 1,100 annual theatrical productions and 21 openings every week." The Los Angeles Music Center is "one of the three biggest performing arts centers in the nation", with more than 1.3 million visitors per year. The Walt Disney Concert Hall, centerpiece of the Music Center, is home to the prestigious Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Notable organizations such as Center Theatre Group, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and the Los Angeles Opera are also resident companies of the Music Center.
See also: Los Angeles City Museums There are 841 exhibitions and art arcades in Los Angeles County. In fact, Los Angeles has more exhibitions per capita than any other town/city in the world. Some of the notable exhibitions are the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (the biggest art exhibition in the Western United States), the Getty Center (part of the larger J.
Dodger Stadium is the home of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
See also: Sports in Los Angeles and History of the National Football League in Los Angeles The town/city of Los Angeles and its urbane region are the home of ten top level experienced sports teams.
These squads include the Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim of Major League Baseball (MLB), the Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL), the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), the Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League (NHL), the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer (MLS), and the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
Los Angeles is the second-largest town/city in the United States but hosted no NFL team between 1995 and 2015.
At one time, the Los Angeles region hosted two NFL teams: the Rams and the Raiders.
Louis, on January 12, 2016, the NFL announced that the Rams would be moving back to Los Angeles for the 2016 NFL season.
A new stadium will be assembled in Inglewood, California for the team by the 2019 season. Prior to 1995, the Rams played their home games in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum from 1946 to 1979 and the Raiders played their home games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum from 1982 to 1994.
The San Diego Chargers announced that they will turn into the Los Angeles Chargers beginning in the 2017 NFL season and will play at the Stub - Hub Center in Carson, California for the next two seasons.
Staples Center is a sports arena, home to the Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Sparks, Los Angeles Clippers, and Los Angeles Kings.
Los Angeles has twice hosted the Summer Olympic Games: in 1932 and in 1984, and is presently bidding for 2024 Summer Olympics, with Memorial Coliseum as the host stadium.
Los Angeles also hosted the Deaflympics in 1985 and Special Olympics World Summer Games in 2015. Los Angeles boasts a number of sports venues, including Dodger Stadium, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, The Forum, the Stub - Hub Center, the Staples Center, and the Rose Bowl in close-by Pasadena.
Main article: Government of Los Angeles See also: Government of Los Angeles County Los Angeles is a charter town/city as opposed to a general law city.
The current charter was adopted on June 8, 1999 and has been amended many times since then. The propel government consists of the Los Angeles City Council and the Mayor of Los Angeles which operate under a mayor-council government, as well as the town/city attorney (not to be confused with the precinct attorney, a county office) and controller.
The town/city has many departments and appointed officers, including the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners, the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA), the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT), and the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL).
The Charter of the City of Los Angeles ratified by voters in 1999 created a fitness of advisory neighborhood councils that would represent the range of stakeholders, defined as those who live, work or own property in the neighborhood.
In the California State Assembly, Los Angeles is split between fourteen districts. In the California State Senate, the town/city is split between eight districts. In the United States House of Representatives, it is split between ten congressional districts. See also: Crime in Los Angeles and List of criminal gangs in Los Angeles Los Angeles experienced a momentous decline in crime in the 1990s and late 2000s and reached a 50-year low in 2009 with 314 homicides. This is a rate of 7.85 per 100,000 populace a primary decline from 1980 when a homicide rate of 34.2 per 100,000 was reported. This encompassed 15 officer-involved shootings.
One shooting led to the death of a SWAT team member, Randal Simmons, the first in LAPD's history. Los Angeles in the year of 2013 totaled 251 murders, a decline of 16 percent from the previous year.
According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the town/city is home to 45,000 gang members, organized into 450 gangs. Among them are the Crips and Bloods, which are both African American street gangs that originated in the South Los Angeles region.
Latino street gangs such as the Surenos, a Mexican American street gang, and Mara Salvatrucha, which has mainly members of Salvadoran descent, all originated in Los Angeles.
Second branch of the California State Normal School in downtown Los Angeles opened its doors in 1882.
There are three enhance universities positioned inside the town/city limits: California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA), California State University, Northridge (CSUN) and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Private universities in the town/city include the American Film Institute Conservatory, Alliant International University, Syracuse University (Los Angeles Campus), American Academy of Dramatic Arts (Los Angeles Campus), American Jewish University, The American Musical and Dramatic Academy Los Angeles campus, Antioch University's Los Angeles campus, Charles R.
Drew University of Medicine and Science, Emperor's College, Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising's Los Angeles ground (FIDM), Los Angeles Film School, Loyola Marymount University (LMU is also the parent college of Loyola Law School positioned in Los Angeles), Marymount College, Mount St.
The improve college fitness consists of nine campuses governed by the trustees of the Los Angeles Community College District: East Los Angeles College (ELAC), Los Angeles City College (LACC), Los Angeles Harbor College, Los Angeles Mission College, Los Angeles Pierce College, Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC), Los Angeles Southwest College, Los Angeles Trade-Technical College and West Los Angeles College.
There are various additional universities and universities outside the town/city limits in the Greater Los Angeles area.
The Los Angeles Central Library is in Downtown Los Angeles.
See also: Los Angeles County, California Colleges and universities; and List of high schools in Los Angeles County, California Los Angeles Unified School District serves almost all of the town/city of Los Angeles, as well as a several surrounding communities, with a student populace around 800,000. After Proposition 13 was allowed in 1978, urban school districts had considerable trouble with funding.
Several small sections of Los Angeles are in the Las Virgenes Unified School District.
The Los Angeles County Office of Education operates the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts.
The Los Angeles Public Library fitness operates 72 enhance libraries in the city. Enclaves of unincorporated areas are served by chapters of the County of Los Angeles Public Library, many of which are inside walking distance to residents.
Main article: Media in Los Angeles See also: List of tv shows set in Los Angeles and List of films set in Los Angeles The Los Angeles metro region is the second-largest broadcast designated market region in the U.S.
Los Angeles and New York City are the only two media markets to have seven VHF allocations assigned to them. As part of the region's aforementioned creative industry, the Big Four primary broadcast tv networks, ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC, all have manufacturing facilities and bureaus throughout several regions of Los Angeles.
All four primary broadcast tv networks, plus primary Spanish-language networks Telemundo and Univision, also own and operate stations that both serve the Los Angeles market and serve as each network's West Coast flagship station: ABC's KABC-TV (Channel 7), CBS's KCBS-TV (Channel 2), Fox's KTTV-TV (Channel 11), NBC's KNBC-TV (Chennel 4), Telemundo's KVEA-TV (Channel 52), and Univision's KMEX-TV (Channel 34).
The primary daily English-language journal in the region is the Los Angeles Times.
The Los Angeles Sentinel is the city's primary black weekly paper, boasting the biggest black subscribers in the Western United States.
Los Angeles Times command posts There are also a number of lesser county-wide newspapers, alternative weeklies and magazines, including the Los Angeles Register, Los Angeles Community News, (which focuses on coverage of the greater Los Angeles area), Los Angeles Daily News (which focuses coverage on the San Fernando Valley), LA Weekly, L.A.
Record (which focuses coverage on the music scene in the Greater Los Angeles Area), Los Angeles Magazine, the Los Angeles Business Journal, the Los Angeles Daily Journal (legal trade paper), The Hollywood Reporter, Variety (both entertainment trade papers), and Los Angeles Downtown News.
Many metros/cities adjoining to Los Angeles also have their own daily newspapers whose coverage and availability overlaps into certain Los Angeles neighborhoods.
Los Angeles arts, culture and eveninglife news is also veiled by a number of small-town and nationwide online guides like Time Out Los Angeles, Thrillist, Kristin's List, Daily - Candy, LAist, and Flavorpill. Main article: Transportation in Los Angeles The town/city and the rest of the Los Angeles urbane region are served by an extensive network of freeways and highways.
The Texas Transportation Institute, which prints an annual Urban Mobility Report, ranked Los Angeles road traffic as the most congested in the United States in 2005 as calculated by annual delay per traveler. The average traveler in Los Angeles experienced 72 hours of traffic delay per year as stated to the study.
Los Angeles was followed by San Francisco/Oakland, Washington, D.C.
And Atlanta, (each with 60 hours of delay). Even with the congestion in the city, the mean travel time for commuters in Los Angeles is shorter than other primary cities, including New York City, Philadelphia and Chicago.
Los Angeles's mean travel time for work commutes in 2006 was 29.2 minutes, similar to those of San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Main article: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Current Los Angeles Metro Rail and Metro Transitway map, showing existing lines The LA County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and other agencies operate an extensive fitness of bus lines, as well as subway and light rail lines athwart Los Angeles County, with a combined monthly ridership (measured in individual boardings) of 38.8 million as of September 2011.
The subway and light rail combined average the remaining roughly 8.2 million boardings per month. In 2005, 10.2% of Los Angeles commuters rode some form of enhance transportation. The town/city is also central to the commuter rail fitness Metrolink, which links Los Angeles to all neighboring counties as well as many suburbs.
Union Station in Los Angeles, California Besides the rail service provided by Metrolink and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Los Angeles is served by inter-city passenger trains from Amtrak.
In addition, the town/city directly contracts for small-town and commuter bus service through the Los Angeles Department of Transportation, or LADOT.
Main article: List of airports in the Los Angeles region The Theme Building at Los Angeles Airport The chief international and domestic airport serving Los Angeles is Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX), generally referred to by its airport code, LAX.
(IATA: ONT, ICAO: KONT) LA/Ontario International Airport, owned by the town/city of Los Angeles; serves the Inland Empire.
One of the world's busiest general-aviation airports is also positioned in Los Angeles, Van Nuys Airport (IATA: VNY, ICAO: KVNY). The Port of Los Angeles is positioned in San Pedro Bay in the San Pedro neighborhood, approximately 20 miles (32 km) south of Downtown.
Also called Los Angeles Harbor and WORLDPORT LA, the port complex is situated in 7,500 acres (30 km2) of territory and water along 43 miles (69 km) of waterfront.
The sea ports of the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach together make up the Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor. Together, both ports are the fifth busiest container port in the world, with a trade volume of over 14.2 million TEU's in 2008. Singly, the Port of Los Angeles is the busiest container ports in the United States and the biggest cruise ship center on the West Coast of the United States The Port of Los Angeles' World Cruise Center served about 590,000 passengers in 2014. There are also smaller, non-industrial harbors along Los Angeles' coastline.
Main article: List of citizens from Los Angeles As home to Hollywood and its entertainment industry, various singers, actors and other entertainers live in various districts of Los Angeles.
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(February 7, 1988), Water For Los Angeles Sam Nelson Interview, The Regents of the University of California, 11, retrieved October 7, 2013 City of Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering.
Building Victory: Aircraft Manufacturing in the Los Angeles Area in World War II, pp.5 8, 14, 26, 36, 50, 60, 78, 94, 108, 122, Cypress, CA, 2013.
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"Los Angeles (California) Riots of 1992".
Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles Daily News.
Los Angeles Times.
New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's global cities.
"Los Angeles tops worst metros/cities for traffic in USA".
Los Angeles Magazine.
"Historical Weather for Los Angeles, California, United States of America".
"Los Angeles Climate Guide".
Frommer's Los Angeles 2011.
Los Angeles Times.
"Station Name: CA LOS ANGELES DWTN USC CAMPUS".
"Station Name: CA LOS ANGELES INTL AP".
The Native American name for Los Angeles was Yang na, which translates into "the valley of smoke." "Pittsburgh and Los Angeles the most polluted US cities".
"Los Angeles meets 20 percent renewable energy goal".
"Los Angeles (city), California".
City of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Times.
"Los Angeles's Breed Street Shul Saved by Politicians".
"LDS Los Angeles California Temple".
"Los Angeles: Economy".
"City of Los Angeles CAFR (2010)" (PDF).
City of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Downtown News.
"Is Los Angeles really the creative capital of the world? Music Center of Los Angeles County.
"The Los Angeles Region".
Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles Times.
"NFL returns to Los Angeles: Owners approve move by Rams; Chargers with option to join".
"Los Angeles To Host 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games".
"Los Angeles, California Code Resources".
"Los Angeles crime rates hit 50-year lows".
Crime in Los Angeles, California (CA): murders, rapes, robberies, assaults, burglaries, thefts, auto thefts, arson, law enforcement employees, police officers, crime map Los Angeles Police Department.
"Police target 11 worst Los Angeles street gangs".
"Los Angeles Public Library Branches".
Los Angeles Public Library.
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Los Angeles World Airports.
Sister Cities Los Angeles.
The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles.
See also: Bibliography of Los Angeles Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World.
Los Angeles: A History of the Future.
Los Angeles A to Z: An Encyclopedia of the City and County.
Los Angeles: Portrait of a City.
Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (2nd ed.).
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles.
The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles 1850 1930.
City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present.
Bohemian Los Angeles: and the Making of Modern Politics.
Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles.
Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology.
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