LOS ANGELES Los Angeles Region Historical Settlement Founded 1781
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LOS ANGELES Los Angeles Region Historical Settlement Founded 1781 Near LA River Pueblo Agriculture… Irrigation Cattle Ranching Historical Settlement RR to East ~ 1880s st 1 Land Boom Satellite towns Intra-Urban RR Centered on LA Connected towns Open Space between AKA “Red Car”… Historical Settlement LA Aqueduct (1913) nd 2 Land Boom Big In-Migration City Pop. Growth 1900 – 100,000 1920 – 600,000 1930 – over 1 million Freeways 1940 – Arroyo (Pasadena) 1970 – mostly completed Airports –LAX+ 4 Regional Autopia Los Angeles Today City 4 Million Pop. 470 sq. mi. Metropolitan Area LA 18 Million Pop. OC Covers 5 Counties San Bernardino Riverside Ventura Economic Activities Originally Agriculture Entertainment Tourism Oil Aerospace Shipping & Trade Agriculture Ranching in Spanish-Mexican era Irrigation... Productive Agriculture # 1 Co. in USA until 1950s LA County Fair (Pomona) Agriculture Oranges LA = “Big Orange” Orange County Along Valley Margins Thermal Belt Pasadena, Glendora Redlands Agriculture Dairies Chino Milk Few… Agriculture Grapes & Wineries Rancho Cucamonga Temecula Entertainment Movies came to LA ~ 1920 Landscape Variety… Sunny Climate… Outdoor Filming... Entertainment “The Industry” Hollywood Paramount Universal Offices Support Sound Film Editing Entertainment Movie Studios Burbank Warner Brothers Disney NBC (TV) Culver City Sony (MGM) Tourism 1st for Health Entertainment… Hollywood Disneyland = # 1 Anaheim Local… Venice Beach Knott’s Berry Farm Oil Near Geologic Faults Newport-Inglewood… Oil 1920s… Most Productive… Signal Hill Wilmington… # 2 after Texas Fueled Auto-oriented Growth in So. CA… Refineries… Wilmington… “El Segundo” Aerospace Industry Aircraft Before & during WW II… due to year-round climate Evolved into Space Aviation… due to “Cold War” with USSR 1989 – 265,000 jobs Æ 1992 – 132,000 jobs Shipping & Trade Los Angeles (San Pedro) / Long Beach Ports #1 Harbor in U.S.A. 40% of U.S.A. imports Largest Artificial Harbor in World Queen Mary Imports Crude Oil from Alaska Cars, Electronics from Japan, Korea Everything… From China Toyota Ship Long Beach Exports Petroleum Byproducts Scrap Metal Æ Japan Clothing Industry Originally for Hollywood “glamour” Then Sportswear # 1 U.S.A. city for clothing manufacture Education U.C. L.A. Riverside Irvine Cal. State Long Beach Education 5 other C.S.U.’s … Private Universities U.S.C. CalTech Pasadena Engineering Sciences Seismology Claremont Colleges – Pomona, McKenna, Scripps, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, Graduate JPL – Jet Propulsion Laboratory Public Transit Today Multi- modal Transit… Buses Busway I-10 El Monte I-110 Transit Harbor Los Orange Angeles Valley Amtrak Æ other U.S. cities MetroLink Commuter Subway (underground) Red Transit Valley Los Purple Angeles Wilshire Blvd. Æ Light Rail Blue Long Beach Gold Pasadena East LA Green LAX Transit Aqua Los WLA Angeles F U T U R E R A I L Future Rail Transit? Metrolink Commuters Æ Red Line Subway Built 1990s 16 Miles Union Station… Wilshire Hollywood Universal/NoHo Universal Studios – City Walk Downtown Los Angeles Downtown LA Historical Center for Los Angeles Node for… Transit Freeways Downtown Los Angeles Still center for… Government Corporate HDQ Specialized Districts Fashion Jewelry Toys Regional Centers Largest Satellite City Long Beach ½ Million Pop. Early Decentralization Pasadena Hollywood Santa Monica Wilshire Blvd. Æ West (now Subway) Wilshire Center Miracle Mile Beverly Hills Westwood/UCLA Decentralization to Suburbs New Employment Patterns – Jobs in Suburbs Preference for … Single-Family Detached Homes San Fernando Valley Glendale Finance Universal-So. Burbank “The Industry” Ventura Boulevard Sherman Oaks-Encino Warner Center (Woodland Hills) Coastal Mini-Cities LAX Del Amo Plaza (Torrance) South Coast Plaza (Costa Mesa, OC) “Orange Crush” Disneyland Sports Facilities Inland Empire San Bernardino Riverside Pomona-Ontario Inland Empire Fastest Growing Population San Bernardino… The “Pass City” Early RR & Hwy X-Roads Cajon Pass – N Gregorio Pass – E Industry Kaiser Steel Plant – WW II Inland Empire Riverside… “Orange Empire” UC Riverside Mission Inn Pomona-Ontario… Most integrated with LA % Ethnicity USA CA LA County SD White 64 40 28 45 (Non-Hispanic) Latino 16 38 48 29 (Hispanic) Black (African-American) 13 6 9 7 Asian + Pacific Islander 5 14 14 16 Ethnic Population Los Angeles Latino/Hispanic Majority Cities (2010) CITY % WHITE % LATINO % ASIAN % BLACK East Los Angeles 2 97 1 1 Huntington Park 2 97 1 1 Maywood 2 97 0 1 Bell Gardens 3 96 1 1 Cudahy 2 96 1 1 South Gate 3 95 1 1 Bell 5 93 1 1 Lennox 2 93 2 3 San Fernando 5 93 1 1 Pico Rivera 5 91 3 1 Lynwood 2 87 1 10 La Puente 5 85 9 1 Baldwin Park 4 80 14 1 Montebello 9 79 11 1 Paramount 6 79 4 12 Latino/Hispanic Majority Cities (2010) CITY % WHITE % LATINO % ASIAN % BLACK Pomona 13 71 9 7 Downey 18 71 7 4 Norwalk 12 70 12 4 El Monte 5 69 25 1 Azusa 19 68 9 3 Whittier 28 66 4 1 Compton 1 65 1 33 Palmdale 25 54 5 15 Hawthorne 10 53 8 28 West Covina 15 53 26 5 Covina 30 52 12 4 Bellflower 20 52 12 14 Inglewood 3 51 2 44 Asian or Black Majority Cities (2010) CITY % WHITE % LATINO % ASIAN % BLACK Monterey Park 5 27 67 0 Walnut 13 19 64 3 Cerritos 17 12 62 7 San Gabriel 11 26 61 1 Rosemead 5 34 61 1 Rowland Heights 10 27 60 2 Arcadia 26 12 59 1 Temple City 23 19 56 1 San Marino 37 7 54 0 Alhambra 10 34 53 2 Diamond Bar 21 20 53 4 View Park- Windsor Hills 4 7 1 85 Ladera Heights 13 6 4 74 White Majority Cities (2010) CITY % WHITE % LATINO % ASIAN % BLACK Hermosa Beach 81 8 6 1 Manhattan Beach 79 7 9 1 Beverly Hills 79 6 9 2 West Hollywood 78 11 6 3 Rolling Hills 74 6 17 2 Palos Verdes Estates 73 5 17 1 Sierra Madre 72 15 8 2 Santa Monica 70 13 9 4 El Segundo 69 16 9 2 Redondo Beach 65 15 12 3 La Canada-Flintridge 65 6 26 1 Rolling Hills Estates 64 6 25 1 Glendale 62 17 17 1 Burbank 58 25 12 3 La Crescenta-Montrose 58 11 27 1 La Habra Heights 57 24 16 1 Glendora 57 31 8 2 Rancho Palos Verdes 56 9 29 2 Santa Clarita 56 30 9 3 La Verne 55 31 8 3 San Dimas 52 31 11 3 Cities with No Majority Ethnicity CITY % WHITE % LATINO % ASIAN % BLACK Artesia 21 36 37 4 Carson 8 39 28 24 Gardena 9 38 27 24 Lancaster 38 34 5 21 Pasadena 39 34 14 11 Signal Hill 30 32 22 14 LOS ANGELES 29 49 11 10 Duarte 27 48 16 7 Hacienda Heights 15 46 37 1 Long Beach 29 41 14 14 La Mirada 38 40 18 2 Claremont 49 20 13 5 Culver City 48 23 15 10 South Pasadena 44 19 31 3 Lomita 43 33 15 5 Torrance 42 16 35 3 Lakewood 41 30 17 9 Monrovia 41 38 11 7 Altadena 40 27 6 24 L O E S T H A N N I G C E I L T E Y S L O E S T H A N N I G C E I L T E Y S Los Angeles Ethnicity – 2000 vs. 2010 http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/map?hp Los Angeles Ethnic Areas Los Angeles Ethnic Areas Mexican East & Southeast LA Boyle Heights… Huntington Park… San Gabriel Valley El Monte Santa Ana Central American Guatemalan Salvadoran Chinatown Chinese Monterey Park… Majority Asian Hacienda Heights Since 1980s Korean 1970 9,000 in LA 1990s 300,000 Vietnamese Vietnamese 1970 1,000 in LA 1990s 150,000 Westminster Garden Grove Indian (South Asian) Filipinos 300,000 in LA… Carson/Long Beach West Covina/Walnut Cerritos/Buena Park Eagle Rock/Glendale Armenians Migrations from… Turkey… WW 1 Soviet Union… 1960s & 1990s 200,000 in LA… Glendale E Hollywood L.A. “Ethnic Work Niches” X Norm Nationality Occupation 30 Cambodian Donut Shops 16 Armenian Jewelry 16 Korean Retail Liquor, Laundry 14 Vietnamese Electronic Technicians 10 Salvadoran (W) House Cleaners, Clothing Manufacturing 10 South Asian (W) Physicians 7 Chinese Pharmacists 6 Filipino Nursing Los Angeles SAN DIEGO Steppe Climate San Diego 9” Rain/Yr Mild Temp. San Diego Costal Cities High Income La Jolla Scripps Medical Clinic Point Loma Scripps Institute (Ocean.) UC San Diego Biomedical… San Diego – Site Big Natural Harbor Cabrillo… 1542 San Diego Origin 1st CA Mission 1769 San Diego River San Diego History Presidio 1774 Military Old Town 1820s San Diego – Old Town San Diego History Early growth… Seaside Æ East on Mesas Normal Heights CSU San Diego San Diego Economy Military Navy Coronado Miramar Marines Camp Pendleton Tourism Historical Cabrillo NM S.D. Mission Old Town Balboa Park San Diego Zoo SD Tourism Coastal Recreation San Diego Bay Coronado Mission Bay Sea World La Jolla Bay Scenic Coves San Diego San Diego Tourism Seaside Resort Coronado Hotel SD Tourism Balboa Park 1868… 1,400 acres World Fairs… 1915 & 1935 15 Museums S.D. Zoo Old Globe Tourism Sea World SD Tourism San Diego Zoo Safari Park Formerly known as “Wild Animal Park” Escondido in North County San Diego Zoo Safari Park Gorillas Cheetah Giraffe San Diego Zoo Safari Park Rhinos Zebras Lorikeet Tourism Tijuana TJ Trolley San Diego Æ San Ysidro San Diego Public Transit Surface Light Rail Routes… Unused RR R-O-W Tijuana “Border Town” Escape to Vice… Avenida de la Revolution Maquiladoras Factories near USA market “Fronterizos” SD-TJ commuters Work for Parents School for Children Chula Vista – “Chulajuana” Tijuana Tijuana Cultural Arts Center.