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American neighborhoods are changing, growing and re-defining themselves. Nowhere is this more evident than in Venice, California, where one of Los Angeles' most sophisticated and affluent creative enclaves sits side-by-side with a traditional working class community. This contrast has become even more stark recently, as residents build sustainable architectural homes in densely populated areas of Oakwood, which was once segregated by a covenant and was home to the Venice 13.

Despite all these contradictions, Venice remains a magical spot not only to the tourists that flock to its beaches year after year, but also to those-rich or poor-that call Venice their home.

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Venice West Cafe, popular among the Beats, inspired a counterculture that swept the streets of Venice, forever changing the neighborhood's cultural background.
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Participants shared their own definitions and examples of the word "community," and create photographic works based on these shared ideas using found photography and embroidery.
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Venice Arts' Community Story Lab ventured out together for their first group shoot around Venice and gathered photographs that could help shape how they envision their "community."
In memory of Navalette Tabor Bailey, we remember her with this interview and thank her for her contribution to Los Angeles and its history.
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In 1929, as Venice of America fell into decline, oil was discovered in the peninsula.
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Sought after by the local and international elite, Jay Griffith's theatrical gardens are bold, expressive juxtapositions of materials, plants and textures that have garnered him a reputation as the enfant terrible of landscape architecture.
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Developers are scowled at by locals, and Frank Murphy is not exempt. Viewed as catalysts for unwanted change, they bring in outsiders and push insiders out, while plowing the land in order to build their sky fortresses.
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Whitney Sander and designer Catherine Holliss' house in the Venice canals is an idea house.Embracing a myriad of materials, much like skin and bones shelter and shape the human body.
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Glen Irani's home in the Venice canals is a laboratory of ideas, a sketchpad on the new vernacular of Venice residential architecture.
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Lorcan O'Herlihy s intensely preoccupied with the idea of density and planning as a means of solving environmental issues in Venice and beyond.
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Maryjane is an activist, artist, poet, and documentarian. In the 1960s and 1970s, Maryjane lived in the cottage, now owned by Orson Bean and Alley Mills.
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Over the years, Longtime residents Orson Bean and Alley Mills have witnessed an increase in housing prices along with a growth of reclusive behavior in new residents along the canals.
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