Download or read book Bridges of Downtown Los Angeles written by Kevin Break and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Los Angeles River was tamed years ago. The river, by nature wanting to be violent and random, doses now in a concrete bed through downtown Los Angeles. In the city's core, there are over a dozen bridges that connect Los Angeles across the river--and these bridges are architectural marvels! These bridges were built in the first decades of the 1900s, and their history continues. The largest and longest bridge, the Sixth Street Viaduct, is in the process of being replaced. Others have been upgraded and enlarged; Spring Street is underway now. Many of the bridges were designed by one man, Merrill Butler, who made each bridge different, yet matching. In this volume, the reader will explore the necessity of the bridges, how they came to be, and where they are going in the future. The time is ripe for a reexamination of these jewels of downtown Los Angeles.
Download or read book Bridging Los Angeles written by Teresa Grimes and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging Los Angeles is an important pictorial and literary gift to Los Angelenos and to all with an affinity for beautiful and iconic bridges. Published by the City of Los Angeles, Bureau of Engineering, Bridging Los Angeles serves as a tribute to the rich, connective history of the Sixth Street Viaduct and the related Los Angeles River bridges over the past 80-plus years. More than 100 pages, Bridging Los Angeles visits the history of early Los Angeles at the arrival of Spanish explorers in the 18th century, and examines the role river bridges played in the city's structure and development. Readers will walk away with a profound understanding of the Sixth Street Viaduct's history, the bridge's structural decline, and the future "ribbon of arches design" that will transform and re-ignite the Arts District and Boyle Heights communities in Los Angeles.
Download or read book A Bridge to the Nineties written by Urban Innovations Group and published by . This book was released on 1982* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alameda Corridor Alameda Railroad Corridor Consolidated Project from Downtown Los Angeles to Badger Avenue Bridge written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1st Street Viaduct and Street Widening Project written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Down by the Los Angeles River written by and published by Wilderness Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade millions of dollars have been spent on restoring and revitalizing the Los Angeles River and its surroundings. Dozens of parks, miles of bike trails, public art installations and hundreds of trees and plants follow the river as it winds 51 miles through more than 100 communities. Down by the Los Angeles River is the first on-the-ground guide to checking out sites new and old, and getting to know the historic river that runs through greater L.A. The book includes striking original illustrations as well as maps. Twenty-seven walks and twelve bike rides along the Los Angeles and its tributaries, each with directions to the starting point and descriptions of natural, historic, and artistic features along the way. The river paths are already popular for walkers and joggers, bicyclists, dog-walkers, historians and bird-watchers—a readymade audience for this one-of-a-kind book.
Download or read book Henry Ford Bridge Badger Avenue Replacement Project Los Angeles County written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Arcadia written by Peter J. Holliday and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid and engaging exploration of California's debt to the ancient world Discussing the influence of the classics on America is nothing new; indeed, classical antiquity could be considered second only to Christianity as a force in modeling America's national identity. What has never been explored until now is how, from the beginning, Californians in particular chose to visually and culturally craft their new world using the rhetoric of classical antiquity. Through a lively exploration of material culture, literature, and architecture, American Arcadia offers a tour through California's development as a Mediterranean haven from the late nineteenth century to the present. In its earliest days, California was touted as the last opportunity for alienated Yankees to establish the refined gentleman-farmer culture envisioned by Jefferson and build new cities free of the filth and corruption of those they left back East. Through architecture and landscape design Californians fashioned an Arcadian setting evocative of ancient Greece and Rome.Later, as Arcadia gave way to urban sprawl, entire city plans were drafted to conjure classical antiquity, self-styled villas dotted the hills, and utopian communities began to shape the state's social atmosphere. Art historian Peter J. Holliday traces the classical influence primarily through the evidence of material culture, yet the book emphasizes the stories and people, famous and forgotten, behind the works, such as Florence Yoch, the renowned landscape designer and set designer for Gone with the Wind, and "Sister Aimee" Semple McPherson, the most publicized Christian evangelist of her day, whose sermons filled the Pantheon-like Angelus Temple. Telling stories from the creation of the famed aqueducts that turned the semi-arid landscape to a cornucopia of almonds, alfalfa, and oranges to the birth of the body-sculpting movement, American Arcadia offers readers a new way of seeing our past and ourselves.
Download or read book Los Angeles Union Station Run through Tracks Project written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Los Angeles River written by Ted Elrick and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, the Los Angeles River was unpredictable--prone to flooding, a raging torrent during rare Southern California rains, and just a trickle and marshlands the rest of the year. To tame it, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers walled in the river after the disastrous 1938 flood. Decades later, roadside signs that proclaimed "Los Angeles River" prodded the question: How can this cement drain, strewn with trash and abandoned refrigerators, be considered a river? Abused through the 20th century, the L.A. River is in the midst of a comeback, thanks to the Friends of the Los Angeles River (FoLAR) and local governments. The realization that this arroyo has been as crucial to the development and growth of the city as the climate is again alive in the community. The vintage photographs for this historic and redemptive look at one of the great natural features of Los Angeles County were collected from private and public archives.--From publisher description.
Download or read book Pocket Guide To Los Angeles Architecture written by Judith Paine Mcbrien and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guidebook organizes 100 architectural highlights into three walkable downtown tours and two side trips. Sprawling Los Angeles may never be considered a walking city, but this concise handbook organizes one hundred must-see architectural highlights into three downtown walkable tours and two delightful side trips. It covers such classic sights as Grauman’s Chinese Theatre and the Griffith Observatory; modernist landmarks such as the Schindler House; creative reuses such as the hip Standard Hotel, once the Superior Oil Building; and the latest new public and cultural buildings, including Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Hall and Richard Meier’s Getty Center. Each entry summarizes the structure’s history and significance and is illustrated with original drawings that capture the essence of the place.
Download or read book 6th Street Viaduct Seismic Improvement Project written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Resistance at the Trench written by Linda C. Samuels and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last three decades, five projects have been proposed to bridge the 101 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles; none have come to fruition. Two of significant design merit were selected through international competitions, Steel Cloud in 1988 and the 101 Pedestrian Bridge in 1999. By studying the competition objectives, media portrayal, jury, and winners, this research analyzes why these proposals failed to be implemented in context of the larger planning objectives, politics, agency relationships, and economic contexts of the era. More broadly, this work explores the larger struggle to transform autocentric infrastructure into vibrant and publicly accessible civic space.
Download or read book Los Angeles Monument Bridges written by James Sanderson and published by . This book was released on 2021-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you love bridges and historical architecture this book is for you. Explore 12 monument bridges that cross the Los Angeles River. Foreward by Michael Drennan and Introduction by Robert Reid. 7x7 Hardcover 192 pages.
Download or read book River of Angels written by Alejandro Morales and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The West was a place where dreams could come true, and in this epic novel Alejandro Morales introduces two very different families and an unpredictable river to explore the allure of Southern California and the development of Los Angeles. Although the Rivers and Kellers families come from different backgrounds—ethnic, class and linguistic—their lives and fortunes become inextricably linked through their children. An illicit love affair leads to tragedy as the families are victims of racism and the pseudo-scientific philosophy of eugenics, or selective breeding, proposed by those fearful of Los Angeles’ diverse population in the 1920s. River of Angels is a richly detailed look at the people who lived on both sides of the river that separated the haves from the have-nots, from the mystical and forgotten Native Americans and their mixed-blood Latino descendants to the opportunity-seeking Yankees and the African, Mexican and Asian migrants. Acclaimed novelist Alejandro Morales excavates the layered history of Los Angeles in this stirring epic of love, loss and redemption.
Download or read book The New Yorker s Guide to LA The Angeleno s Guide to NYC written by Henry Owens and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comparative travel guide answers the oft-posed question, "Which city is better: LA or New York?" The short answer: Who cares?! It turns out the cities' similarities are what make it impossible to choose. The New Yorker's Guide to LA, The Angeleno's Guide to NYC -- colorful and comprehensive -- is as much a love letter to these two cities as it is a practical travel guide. By highlighting the parallels between the two places, it will help you get up to speed in New York City or settle into the groove of Los Angeles. Featuring a mirrored design, this book shows which neighborhoods correspond in each city, which pizza places and taco stands can't be missed, and how to seamlessly switch from navigating the MTA to driving on the 405. Covering art, culture, shopping, food, and more, it highlights the similarities while breaking down the nuanced differences in each city. It's practical, must-have guide for tourist and native alike.
Download or read book Lessons Learned from the Northridge Earthquake written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
