Architecture in Los Angeles

Architecture in Los Angeles
Author: David Gebhard
Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers
Total Pages: 532
Release: 1985
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

"The most comprehensive guide over published to the man-made environment of Southern California. Contains hundreds of entries plus notes on city history, freeways, murals, and historic preservation. Also, a comprehensive bibliography, a photographic history of Los Angeles architecture, and an unequalled style glossary. David Gebhard and Robert Winter deftly pilot the enthusiast through one of the richest architectural regions in the world. With perception, understanding, and wit, the authors point out the classical monuments, the tacky copies, the sublime, and the bizarre. They lead us to the famous buildings and through the backstreets and alleys to find the unsung treasures. Loaded with maps and photographs."--Back cover.

Los Angeles in the 1930s

Los Angeles in the 1930s
Author: WPA Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in Southern California
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 584
Release: 2011-04-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520268830

Previously published: New York: Hastings House, 1941, under the title Los Angeles: a guide to the city and its environs, as part of the American guide series.

A People's Guide to Los Angeles

A People's Guide to Los Angeles
Author: Laura Pulido
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2012-04-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520953347

A People’s Guide to Los Angeles offers an assortment of eye-opening alternatives to L.A.’s usual tourist destinations. It documents 115 little-known sites in the City of Angels where struggles related to race, class, gender, and sexuality have occurred. They introduce us to people and events usually ignored by mainstream media and, in the process, create a fresh history of Los Angeles. Roughly dividing the city into six regions—North Los Angeles, the Eastside and San Gabriel Valley, South Los Angeles, Long Beach and the Harbor, the Westside, and the San Fernando Valley—this illuminating guide shows how power operates in the shaping of places, and how it remains embedded in the landscape.

The Little Black Book of Los Angeles

The Little Black Book of Los Angeles
Author: Marlene Goldman
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-02
Genre: Los Angeles (Calif.)
ISBN: 9781593598396

Here's what to see and do, and where to eat, drink, shop, stay, and play in America's glamour queen city-from glitzy Hollywood to posh Beverly Hills, to Santa Monica's surf, Pasadena's parade, and beyond! An amalgam of mini cities connected by a web of freeways and boulevards, the City of Angels boasts more than 80 stage theaters and 300 museums-more than any other U.S. city. With a history intimately associated with the Silver Screen, Los Angeles is at once classic and eccentric. In this indispensable pocket guide, "Top Picks" direct you to not-to-be-missed attractions, and handy "Notes" pages are included to jot down all your favorites. 248 pages, plus 11 fold-out maps.

Lonely Planet Los Angeles, San Diego & Southern California

Lonely Planet Los Angeles, San Diego & Southern California
Author: Lonely Planet
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Total Pages: 984
Release: 2018-04-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1787019373

Lonely Planet Los Angeles, San Diego & Southern California is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Cruise the slow lanes of the Pacific Coast Highway, ride in spinning teacups at Disneyland Resort, or hit the trails in Joshua Tree National Park; all with your trusted travel companion. Begin your journey now!

Cereal City Guide: Los Angeles

Cereal City Guide: Los Angeles
Author: Rosa Park
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2021-11-02
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1683359984

From the leading independent travel and style magazine Cereal comes Cereal City Guide: Los Angeles: a portrait of the City of Angels offering a finely curated edit on what to see and do for discerning travelers and locals alike. Rosa Park, Cereal's founder, has built a loyal readership that counts on her unique, considered advice. Rather than a comprehensive directory of all there is to see and do, these Cereal City Guides offer instead an edit of points of interest and venues that reflect Cereal’s values in both quality and aesthetic sensibility. Rosa has personally visited hundreds of venues in Los Angeles, distilling her preferred locales down to her firm favorites. From the laid-back excellence of its food scene, brimming with fresh produce, to elegant hotels imbued with the glamor of Old Hollywood, these are the finds that offer a more personal take on the sprawling, energetic city. Meticulously researched and illustrated with original photography, each guide includes: photo essays of striking images of the city an illustrated neighborhood map interviews and essays from celebrated locals such as Amanda Chantal Bacon of Moon Juice and Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen of The Row lists of essential architectural points of interest, museums, galleries, day trips outside the city, and unique goods to buy an itinerary for an ideal day in Los Angeles Cereal City Guide: Los Angeles is a design-focused portrait of an iconic city, offering a distinctive look at the best museums, galleries, hotels, restaurants, and shops. Also, check out Cereal City Guide: Copenhagen, Cereal City Guide: Paris, Cereal City Guide: New York, and Cereal City Guide: London.

Secret Stairs

Secret Stairs
Author: Charles Fleming
Publisher: Santa Monica Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2010-04-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1595809414

Containing walks and detailed maps from throughout the city, Secret Stairs highlights the charms and quirks of a unique feature of the Los Angeles landscape, and chronicles the geographical, architectural, and historical aspects of the city’s staircases, as well as of the neighborhoods in which the steps are located. From strolling through the classic La Loma neighborhood in Pasadena to walking the Sunset Junction Loop in Silver Lake, to taking the Beachwood Canyon hike through “Hollywoodland” to enjoying the magnificent ocean views from the Castellammare district in Pacific Palisades, Secret Stairs takes you on a tour of the staircases all across the City of Angels. The circular walks, rated for duration and difficulty, deliver tales of historic homes and their fascinating inhabitants, bits of unusual local trivia, and stories of the neighborhoods surrounding the stairs. That’s where William Faulkner was living when he wrote the screenplay for To Have and Have Not; that house was designed by Neutra; over there is a Schindler; that’s where Woody Guthrie lived, where Anais Nin died, and where Thelma Todd was murdered . . . Despite the fact that one of these staircases starred in an Oscar-winning short film—Laurel and Hardy’s The Music Box, from 1932—these civic treasures have been virtually unknown to most of the city’s residents and visitors. Now, Secret Stairs puts these hidden stairways back on the map, while introducing urban hikers to exciting new “trails” all around the city of Los Angeles.

A Guide to the Public Stairways of Los Angeles

A Guide to the Public Stairways of Los Angeles
Author: Robert Inman
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2010-11-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781034784203

The hilly residential areas of Los Angeles are sprinkled with nearly 300 public stairways. They can be found in neighborhoods from Garvanza to Rustic Canyon, from San Pedro to Beachwood Canyon.This little guide is a tool to help the LA walker and observer locate and appreciate these gems of the local neighborhood scene.Inveterate LA walker Bob Inman has combined descriptions with photographs of more than 60 stairways and 18 unique maps to pin point where they are, what they are like and how to enjoy them. These shortcuts penetrate residential thickets in some of the city's most historic and picturesque districts, areas that you cannot truly appreciate from behind the wheel of a car. Whether you walk for fitness or you simply enjoy roaming the intricate LA hills, the stairways are treasures waiting to be discovered.

Day Hiking Los Angeles

Day Hiking Los Angeles
Author: Casey Schreiner
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2016-11-04
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1680510096

• 125 of the best trails throughout the Los Angeles metro area • Easy-to-use, well-organized guide to hiking in the greater Los Angeles area • Hikes feature ocean views, waterfalls, coastal canyons, native grasslands, rocky peaks, desert wildflowers, and more In Southern California, the city of Los Angeles alone covers more than 500 square miles. Yet beyond the freeways and suburbia, there is a surprising amount of hikeable green space and wilderness. This new guide details trails in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, the world’s largest urban national park stretching from the Pacific Coast right into Hollywood itself; the Santa Susana Mountains in Los Padres National Forest; Angeles National Forest, including the San Gabriels and Mount San Antonio, the highest point in Los Angeles County; the striking desert landscape of Antelope Valley; the Santa Ana Mountains; portions of the San Bernardino Mountains; Chino Hills State Park; and slivers of green space and city parks such as famed Griffith Park.