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Coded Geographies
Lost L.A.
Segregation in the City of Angels: A 1939 Map of Housing Inequality in L.A.
Post date:Endorsed by New Deal-era federal housing policy, "redlining" encouraged housing inequality in U.S. cities.
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Dakota Access Pipeline
Earth Focus
What's Keeping Tribes From Harnessing Their Wind Energy?
Post date:When it comes to building windmills, Native peoples face more obstacles than non-Native corporations.
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maps
Lost L.A.
A Map of California for the Blind
Post date:How is the state's geography represented for those who cannot see?
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maps
Lost L.A.
Six Strange Maps of California
Post date:With their fanciful imaginings and their deliberate distortions, these six maps of California will challenge your preconceptions about the Golden State.
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san bernardino
Lost L.A.
Maps: When Two States Laid Claim to Los Angeles
Post date:From 1849-51, two separate states laid claim to the Los Angeles region.
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l.a. letters
History & Society
Thematic Cartography and Mapping Los Angeles
Post date:This week L.A. Letters highlights several books that examine the role mapping plays in place-making and regional identity, including the new book "LAtitudes" by Heyday Press that uses maps to explore the past, present, and future of Los Angeles.
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Where We Are
History & Society
How Do Places Mean? It's All in Your Head.
Post date:Places mean - even the most ordinary places - because they become, however briefly, remarkable.
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art
Earth Focus
Drawing a Personal Map of the Los Angeles River
Post date:A memory map can help people capture the magic of a place as a psychological phenomenon that lives only in the minds of those who experience it.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Imagining Global War: Popular Cartography During World War II
Post date:Incendiary Traces looks at the cartographic representations of WWII in the 1940s, providing historical context for understanding our own conception of global space.
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Boyle Heights
Youth Voices
Roadmap to La Comunidad: Boyle Heights & East Los Angeles
Post date:What would you include in a map of your neighborhood?
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mountain view high school
Youth Voices
Taking a New Look at El Monte and the San Gabriel River
Post date:Sometimes taking a moment to examine our routine or maybe even stray from it, allows us to see something new or see something familiar in a new way.
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Hollywood
Lost L.A.
Hooray for...Colegrove? Remembering Hollywood's Forgotten Neighbor
Post date:Old maps show that two towns, Hollywood and Colegrove, once made up modern-day Hollywood.
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leimert park
Youth Voices
Leimert Park Workshop #1: Identifying Neighborhood Connections
Post date:What makes a neighborhood? For the Leimert Park student producers it's the places that nurture their creativity, connect them to their cultural roots and make them wonder what if.
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maps
Lost L.A.
The First Map of Los Angeles May Be Older Than You Think
Post date:In 1786, a sergeant in the Spanish army sketched what was likely the first map of Los Angeles.
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engaging spaces
History & Society
Mapping, Farming, and Biking Toward a Healthy South L.A.
Post date:One way we can change our community is to bike a healthy food map.
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LA Leadership Academy
Youth Voices
Mapping: Organizing Space
Post date:Maps have not always been simple representations of reality but a tool used to conceptualize and organize space. This is true for the Youth Voices producers who focused on their personal experiences, memories and relationships to create their community...
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Youth Voices
HeArt Project Students Create Opportunities Through Art
Post date:With art, creativity and support, students are able to harness new opportunities and see a new future for themselves.
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engaging spaces
History & Society
Maps and Guides that Frame L.A.'s Alternative Spaces
Post date:Angelenos often have a hard time convincing the so-called more progressive Bay Area and New York that there is an L.A. that is not consumed with a plastic way of living.
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commentary
SoCal Focus
Maps to Dreamers' Homes: Los Angeles Geography and Image
Post date:What would you chart as a guide to the city you know? Beaches, radio stations, Hollywood beauty salons, taquerÃas, swimming pools, the other downtowns of Los Angeles?
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Youth Voices
My Neighborhood: A Survival Guide In Poetic Verse
Post date:What would be included in the survival guide for your neighborhood? The HeArt Project students at the Del Rey Continuation High School come up with a unique twist.