Download or read book Los Angeles Union Station written by William Bradley and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles Union Station--opened on May 7, 1939, after days of celebration--was the last great train station built in the United States. Intended as a grand portal to a grand Los Angeles, it was an anomaly, built at a time when America was eager to drive or fly to its chosen destinations. Protected by early inclusion on the National Registry of Historic Places for its iconic architecture, Los Angeles Union Station has had an astonishing and unpredictable rebirth. As the city modernizes its public transportation system linking the culturally and geographically diverse communities of Southern California, Union Station--in all its Mission Revival glory--is suddenly the hub of the country's newest light rail and subway system, serving hundreds of thousands of people each week. Where Pullman cars and Harvey Girls once served commuters, where the Super Chief and the Coast Starlight, Streamliners and Domeliners converged, Los Angeles Union Station is now a living-breathing center of transportation modernity.Author William Bradley relates a rich history of fierce battles, cultural relocation, and astounding financial risks culminating in one of California's most important stories. Augmenting his words with vintage images, Bradley not only shares the tale of the terminal, but of the trains that rode its tracks--those 1939 tracks to the future.
Download or read book Los Angeles Union Station written by Marlyn Musicant and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Union Station today is a celebrated architectural icon and vibrant centerpiece of Los Angeles’s regional transportation network. Designed by John and Donald B. Parkinson, its mission revival architecture speaks to a mythic vision of Spanish heritage, but with streamline moderne and art deco details. At first glance this masterpiece, conceived as a magnificent gateway to the growing metropolis, offers no hint of the civic, financial, and legal battles surrounding its development, siting, style, and construction—battles that were waged across decades in the early twentieth century and that went as high as the U.S. Supreme Court. Los Angeles Union Station explores this compelling example of how transit and corporations disrupted regional balances of power and political economies. Aided by new research and beautiful drawings from the Getty Research Institute’s archive, the authors demonstrate how contentious politics informed architectural design—and the many ways in which Union Station was at the heart of the rise of Los Angeles. The book accompanies the exhibition No Further West, on view at the Los Angeles Public Library from May 2 through August 10, 2014.
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 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railway Depots Stations Terminals written by Brian Solomon and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ride the rails with famed railroad historian, Brian Solomon, and learn about the incredible architecture and history of stations across America.
Download or read book Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal union Station written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Station Improvements Report written by California. Department of Transportation. District 7. Transit Branch and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last of the Great Stations written by Bill Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Los Angeles Rail Rapid Transit Project written by Southern California Rapid Transit District and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Los Angeles Union Station Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sunset Limited written by Cormac McCarthy and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-02-04 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, The Sunset Limited is a beautifully crafted play from the legendary Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men and Blood Meridian. 'The Sunset Limited grips from the very first page' – Financial Times A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made. In that small apartment the two men, known as 'Black' and 'White', begin a conversatino that leads each back through his own history. White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con in recovery for drug addiction, is the more hopeful of the men. He is, however, desperate to convince White of the power of faith – while White is desperate to deny it. Between them, they hope to discover the meaning of life itself. Praise for Cormac McCarthy: ‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren 'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series '[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' – Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain
Download or read book New Amtrak Facility at Union Station written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Los Angeles Union Station Platform 7 written by Southern California Regional Rail Authority and published by . This book was released on 2011* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moments in Time How I See It Los Angeles Union Station written by Richard M. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles as I see it through photography as an art.
Download or read book Union Station Los Angeles California written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The document presents structured design guidance for those establising a transit, development, or open space proposal within the Union Station Master Plan (USMP) area. Metro's current holdings of approximately so contiguous acres encompass the historic Station, the railyard, associated transportation hub facilities, the Gateway building and a nearby site currently operated by a restaurant. The Design Guidelines are to be used by Metro, the City of Los Angeles, architects, engineers, landscape architects and other related disciplines in designing projects within the Union Station Master Plan boundaries shown in the USMP...The document is organized into six Chapters as well as an Appendix with supplemental materials. In conjunction with the Transforming Los Angeles Union Station Report, Technical Memoranda and the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Neighborhood Development (LEED N D) version 3 manual, the sections of this Design Guidelines document communicate the design principles and guidelines which need to be considered during the concept design or later stages of a transit, public or private realm design or improvement project to achieve the overarching goals of the developed Master Plan...
Download or read book Los Angeles and the Automobile written by Scott L. Bottles and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More comprehensive than any other book on this topic, Los Angeles and the Automobile places the evolution of Los Angeles within the context of American political and urban history.
Download or read book The Next Great American Station written by Jaymes Phillip Dunsmore and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideas about a city are powerful forces, and have lasting impacts on the built environment. While not every vision is realized in the built form, every aspect of urban development is the reflection of a vision about what the city should be. This is especially true in Los Angeles. Today, the ideas and trends that shaped the development of that city, and many American metropolises, in the twentieth century are falling away, presenting the opportunity for new visions of downtown development and civic space to take form. This work seeks to understand the origins and effects of past visions for Downtown Los Angeles, critique the potential of current visions, and propose new ideas for urban development and public space, using the concepts of civic space and convergence as lenses and Los Angeles Union Station as a focal point. This work is divided into three parts. The first explores the visions and trends that shaped Los Angeles in the twentieth century and their influence on the city today. The second looks at current and emerging trends that are likely to inform the growth of the city in the twenty-first century, which suggest a new type of city is emerging: one in which economic activity, transportation networks and the city's cultures converge downtown. From this study, and an examination of two cities influenced by those trends (London and New York), are derived design principles for transit-oriented civic space networks in city centers. The third part narrows in on Union Station as a site, taking those principles and applying them to create a scenario for the future development of the station area, which is in part a projection of the current and emerging trends and in part an act of imagination, leaping beyond the status quo to envision a better city which does not yet exist, but could. In the conceptual design presented here, Union Station serves three important functions as both a gateway and a destination, a link between the city's past and future, and a cultural crossroads. The station becomes a focal element in a new model for urban development: the convergent city, in which Downtown Los Angeles is not the focus of everyday life, but reemerges as the center of civic life.
