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