Urban Geography/LA

Prelude

I personally really like the name, probably my favourite name in all cities of the world

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Los Angeles county has multiple cities

  • Malibu
  • Los Angeles
  • Beverly Hills
  • Manhattan Beach

According to Woody Allen

  • "I don't want to live in a city where the only cultural advantage is that you can make a right turn on a red light"

Personality type of people

https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/california/articles/top-10-most-accurate-la-stereotypes#:~:text=Laidback,the%20rest%20of%20the%20world.

Movies

https://www.timeout.com/film/los-angeles-movies-57-films-that-best-capture-la

https://giggster.com/blog/famous-los-angeles-filming-locations/

The ones I like

  • 500 days of summer
  • Pulp fiction
  • La la land
  • Mulholland Drive
  • The big lebowski
  • Los Angeles plays itself
  • Clueless
  • The graduate

Beverly Hills

Rodeo drive

  • House of Bijan well known as one of the most expensive mens wear in the world

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Beverly hills hotel

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The graduate house

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Santa Monica

Pier

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Palisades park

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Location of the snap headquarters

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Riot games headquarters (close by)

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Los Angeles

Venice Beach

Boardwalk

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Venice canals

  • Valentines day movie

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Venice skate park

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Silver Lake

Prelude

  • Often described as the “Brooklyn of Los Angeles,” Silver Lake is much more than just a hipster haven
  • Has many alternative bars, record labels
  • Elected coolest neighborhood of LA

Silver Lake Resoirvoir

  • Very nice views around there

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Sunset junction

  • The name refers to the street junction of Sunset Boulevard and Santa Monica Boulevard, two of the largest streets in Los Angeles, both of which travel from Sunset Junction to the Pacific Ocean
  • Canonical

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Miniature libraries

Murals

Elysian Park

Dodgers stadium

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Central LA

Mid-Wilshire

Los Angeles County museum of art

  • Public Art "Urban Light"
  • levitated mass
  • Famous for its large-scale public art sculpture
  • Rain room

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Fairfax

The Grove

Koreatown

Pellissier Building and Wiltern Theatre

  • art deco landmark

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Downtown

Bradbury building

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Eastern columbia building

  • Art deco landmark
  • turquoise terracotta with deep blue and gold trim

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Pershing square

  • Tony hawk

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The last bookstore

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the broad

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Olive Street Parking Garage

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Historic Core

This a neighborhood where Tom (main character of 500 of days of summer)

  • Angels Knoll Park

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Bunker hill

The Exiles (1961)

a lot of film noire happened here, because this neighborhood was run down even though it had beautifyl houses

Hollywood

El Cabrillo

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San Fernando Valley

Dingbats

Licorice pizza

Sun valley

Pink Motel

  • movie Drive

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Pasadena

Bungalow

Mission revival

Los Feliz

Lovell house

  • L.A confidential
  • It is often described as the first steel frame house in the United States, and also an early example of the use of gunite (sprayed-on concrete).
  • one of the first international style house

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South Los Angeles

Watts Towers

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Hollywood hills

Muholland Drive

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West hollywood

Mission revival

Death valley

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Malibu

Getty villa

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Surf culture

  • Hollywood & Pop Culture Influence: Malibu’s surf scene was immortalized in movies, TV shows, and music, from the 1959 film Gidget to The Beach Boys’ songs. This exposure helped introduce surfing to mainstream America and beyond

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Celebrities

  • Many celebrities that dislike the beverly hills life live in Malibux

El Matador state beach

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Brentwood

The Getty

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Written by Davi Cavalcanti Sena who lives and works in Vancouver building useless things