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Los Angeles Leadership Academy
The Los Angeles Leadership Academy is a charter school in central Los Angeles which provides today's youth with the skills and vision to become tomorrow's leaders. Projects such as Learning Games – from which this mapping feature is based – are part of the social justice curriculum of the charter.
http://laleadership.org/

The Green Map System
The Green Map System (GMS) is a locally adaptable, globally shared framework for environmental mapmaking. It invites design teams of all ages and backgrounds to illuminate the connections between natural and human environments by mapping their local urban or rural community. The youth projects include maps and narratives created in communities from around the world including the United States.
http://www.greenmap.com/ymaps/kgrmaps.html

Local History Projects with High School Students
Created by teachers and students at Roosevelt High School, this site presents lesson plans for doing local history projects with high school students. Student work based around the neighborhood of Boyle Heights is presented as well.
http://www.lalc.k12.ca.us/access/units/sue/Unit2.HTML

Animated Census Maps of Los Angeles
USC history professor Phil Ethington created animated census maps of Los Angeles that show demographic changes in Los Angeles neighborhoods from 1940 to 2000.
http://www.usc.edu/schools/sppd/research/census2000/race_census/racecontours/la.htm

Los Angeles Gang Territory Maps
In addition to historical information, this website includes over 30 maps - created with Geographic Informations Systems (GIS) software - of Los Angeles gang territory. These were developed from the graduate research of site creator Alex Alonso.
http://www.streetgangs.com/maps/

Los Angeles Almanac
Los Angeles Almanac is a comprehensive source of information on communities in Southern California.
http://www.laalmanac.com/cities/ci93.htm

Atlas of Cyperspace
This Atlas of Cyperspace features maps and graphic representations of the geographies of the new electronic territories of the Internet, the World-Wide Web and other emerging Cyberspaces.
http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/

The Valley Observed
Created by Kevin Roderick, author of The San Fernando Valley: America's Suburb, this website includes news, links, and observations on San Fernando history, culture, and sense of place.
http://www.americassuburb.com/

From Generation to Generation - Making a Life in South Los Angeles, 1940-2005
In keeping with the Southern California Library's mission of using history to advance social justice, their project From Generation to Generation - Making a Life in South Los Angeles, 1940-2005 engages residents of South Los Angeles in defining and interpreting their own community's history.
http://www.socallib.org/generations/

Los Angeles Conservancy's "Curating the City"
The Los Angeles Conservancy's pilot "Curating the City" project focuses on Wilshire Bouldevard. The web-based project provides site visitors with an interactive tour down one of the city's major thoroughfares.
http://www.curatingthecity.org/

Los Angeles River Virtual Tour
This Los Angeles River virtual tour provides images and historical information from the communities that sit adjacent to the river from its headwaters, through the Sepulveda Basin and Frogtown, to Long Beach.
http://www.lalc.k12.ca.us/target/units/river/tour/index.html

Google Earth
Offers maps and satellite images for complex or pinpointed regional searches.
http://earth.google.com/

Phil Ethington's Multimedia Essay
USC history professor Phil Ethington's multimedia essay "Los Angeles and the Problem of Urban Historical Knowledge."
http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/LAS/history/historylab/LAPUHK/

Southern California Maps
The Los Angeles Public Library site guide for their collection of Southern California maps - including historical street guides, topographical maps, and aerial maps.
http://www.lapl.org/resources/guides/maps_la.html