Vassar College Digital Window @ Vassar Senior Capstone Projects 2019 In search of a city: essays on Los Angeles, food trucks, and home Nicole Lipman Vassar College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalwindow.vassar.edu/senior_capstone Recommended Citation Lipman, Nicole, "In search of a city: essays on Los Angeles, food trucks, and home" (2019). Senior Capstone Projects. 892. https://digitalwindow.vassar.edu/senior_capstone/892 This Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Window @ Vassar. It has been accepted for inclusion in Senior Capstone Projects by an authorized administrator of Digital Window @ Vassar. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. In Search of a City: Essays on Los Angeles, Food Trucks, and Home Nicole Lipman April 25, 2019 Senior Thesis Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies Adviser: Hua Hsu Table of Contents Acknowledgements .………………………………………………………………………………2 Preface .……………………………………………………………………………………………4 Introduction: A Necessary History ..………………………………………………………………7 City on Screen……………………………………………………………………………………20 A Neighborhood Just East of Hollywood ……………………………………………………….34 Multiply and Divide ..……………………………………………………………………………48 Arteries ..…………………………………………………………………………………………60 So Glad to Meet You, Angeles ..…………………………………………………………………70 Bibliography .……………………………………………………………………………………81 !1 Acknowledgements Thank you to Hua Hsu for consistently pushing my work in interesting directions. Thank you to Lisa Brawley for guidance in the ideating and writing processes. Thank you to Ezra Weissman for intellectual and emotional support from the beginning to the end. Thank you to Saski Globig, Klara Kaufman, Casey Parsons, Vanessa Rosensweet, Clare Reynders, Isabel Furman, and Lucy Ellman for open ears. Thank you to Dad and Mom for instilling in me a love of Los Angeles.