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Reynier Village, Los Angeles
Reynier Village is a neighborhood on the Westside of Los Angeles, California. Geography Reynier Village is a triangular-shaped neighborhood bordered on the north by Cadillac Avenue; on the west by Robertson Boulevard; and on the southeast by Kramerwood Place, the 10 Freeway, and Garth Avenue. Reynier Village is south of La Cienega Heights and southwest of Faircrest Heights. The ''Los Angeles Times Mapping L.A. project places Reynier Village is in the larger neighborhood of Mid-City. However, according to the Reynier Village neighborhood association, the village is in Zone 5 of the South Robertson neighborhood. History According to locals, the subdivision was named after a family whose home stood on what it now the city-maintained Reynier Park. Rocha House, the 13th Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument, is located in the village. For many years, real estate agents had called the area " Beverlywood adjacent" or "south Robertson" (the name of the neighborhood council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neighborhoods Of Los Angeles
This is a list of notable districts and neighborhoods within the city of Los Angeles, California, present and past. It includes residential and commercial areas and business-improvement districts, but does not include sales subdivisions or sales tracts. The guiding precept is Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features)#Geographic regions, areas and places. AE * Adams-Normandie * Alsace * Angelino Heights''The Thomas Guide: Los Angeles County'', Rand McNally (2004), pages N and O * Angeles Mesa * Angelus Vista * ArletaNeighborhoods , Mapping L.A., ''Los Angeles Times'' * Arlington Heights * [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mapping L
Mapping may refer to: * Mapping (cartography), the process of making a map * Mapping (mathematics), a synonym for a mathematical function and its generalizations ** Mapping (logic), a synonym for functional predicate Types of mapping * Animated mapping, the depiction of events over time on a map * Brain mapping, the techniques used to study the brain * Data mapping, data element mappings between two distinct data models * Gene mapping, the assignment of DNA fragments to chromosomes * Mind mapping, the drawing of ideas and the relations among them * Projection mapping, the projection of videos on the surface of objects with irregular shapes * Robotic mapping, creation and use of maps by robots * Satellite mapping, taking photos of Earth from space * Spiritual mapping, a practice of some religions * Texture mapping, in computer graphics * Web mapping, mapping of data delivered by Geographic Information Systems See also * * * Mapping theorem (other) * Mappings (poetry) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neighborhood Councils Of Los Angeles
Neighborhood Councils in the City of Los Angeles are city-certified local groups made up of people who live, work, own property or have some other connection to a neighborhood. Neighborhood Council Board Members are elected or selected to their positions by the neighborhoods themselves. There are currently 99 Neighborhood Councils within the city limits, and a corresponding Department of Neighborhood Empowerment within Los Angeles City Hall, City Hall. History In 1999, voters approved a new Government of Los Angeles, City Charter that established the Neighborhood Council System and the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment “to promote more citizen participation in government and make government more responsive to local needs…”. Specifically, the charter ensures each neighborhood council receives early warning of upcoming city decisions and has the opportunity to be heard. The charter also requires that neighborhood councils be consulted in the budget process. Article IX, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beverlywood, Los Angeles
Beverlywood is a neighborhood in the Westside of the city of Los Angeles, California. History Beverlywood was developed in 1940 by Walter H. Leimert, who also developed Leimert Park. The neighborhood consists of 1,354 single family homes, and was one of the first neighborhoods in the Los Angeles area to have binding CC&Rs. These regulations, which are administered by the Beverlywood Homes Association, strictly limit housing size, style, color, and design along with additional restrictions on landscaping, and are enforced by a review committee. Additionally, all residents are required to pay the fees to the Beverlywood Home Association. In recent years, the neighborhood has become a hotspot for mansionization. Despite complying with HOA regulations, many residents believe that the newer and larger houses ruin the feel of the neighborhood, and have been successfully campaigning the Los Angeles City Council for regulations to restrict new home sizes. Geography Beverlywood Homes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KCET
KCET (channel 28) is a secondary PBS member television station in Los Angeles, California, United States. It is owned by the Public Media Group of Southern California alongside the market's primary PBS member, Huntington Beach–licensed KOCE-TV (channel 50). The two stations share studios at The Pointe (on West Alameda Avenue and Bob Hope Drive, between The Burbank Studios and Walt Disney Studios complexes) in Burbank; KCET's transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson in the San Gabriel Mountains (north of Sierra Madre). History Background of educational television in Southern California KCET was the second attempt at establishing an educational station in the Los Angeles area: KTHE, operated by the University of Southern California, had previously broadcast on channel 28, beginning on September 22, 1953. It was the second educational television station in the United States, signing on six months and four days after KUHT in Houston, but ceased broadcasting after only nine month ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments are sites which have been designated by the Los Angeles, California, Cultural Heritage Commission as worthy of preservation based on architectural, historic and cultural criteria. History The Historic-Cultural Monument process has its origin in the Historic Buildings Committee formed in 1958 by the Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects. As growth and development in Los Angeles threatened the city's historic landmarks, the committee sought to implement a formal preservation program in cooperation with local civic, cultural and business organizations and municipal leaders. On April 30, 1962, a historic preservation ordinance proposed by the AIA committee was passed. The original Cultural Heritage Board (later renamed a commission) was formed in the summer of 1962, consisting of William Woollett, FAIA, Bonnie H. Riedel, Carl S. Dentzel, Senaida Sullivan and Edith Gibbs Vaughan. The board met for the first time in August ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rocha House
Rocha House is a historic site in Los Angeles, California, that was designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #13 in 1963. It is located in Reynier Village in Mid-City, Los Angeles. Originally part of Rancho Rincón de Los Bueyes, the land on which the house sits was conveyed to the son of the owner of Rancho La Brea Rancho La Brea was a Mexican land grant in present-day Los Angeles County, California, given in 1828 to Antonio Jose Rocha and Nemisio Dominguez by José Antonio Carrillo, the alcalde of Los Angeles. Rancho La Brea consisted of one square leagu ... in 1872. The Rocha House, sometimes called La Casa de Rocha, was built prior to the transfer, in 1865, by Don Antonio José Rocha II. The original house has a square “ground plan” and a “gringo stairway”; there have been multiple additions. As of 1966, three years after the site was designated a historic-cultural monument, “This quaint landmark, still showing evidence of its romantic past, is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Robertson, Los Angeles
South Robertson (also referred to as Pico-Robertson) is a neighborhood in the Westside of the city of Los Angeles, California. It is notable for its diversity and being a center for the Jewish community. Geography Description According to the Mapping L.A. project of the ''Los Angeles Times,'' Pico-Robertson is flanked on the north and northeast by Beverly Hills, on the east by Carthay and Mid-City, on the south by Mid-City, Crestview, Beverlywood and Cheviot Hills and on the west by Beverly Hills. Colored map, Mapping L.A., ''Los Angeles Times Pico-Robertson's street borders are: north, Gregory Way and Pico Boulevard; northeast, LeDoux Road and Olympic and San Vicente Boulevards, roughly Beverly Glen Drive; [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neighborhood Association
A neighborhood association (NA) is a group of residents or property owners who advocate to organize activities within a neighborhood. An association may have elected leaders and voluntary dues. Some neighborhood associations in the United States are incorporated, may be recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization, and may enjoy freedom from taxation from their home state. The term ''neighborhood association'' is sometimes incorrectly used instead of homeowners association. But neighborhood associations are not homeowners associations - groups of property owners with the legal authority to enforce rules and regulations that focus on restrictions and building and safety issues. A neighborhood association is a group of neighbors and business owners who work together for changes and improvements such as neighborhood safety, beautification and social activities. They reinforce rules and regulations through education, peer pressure and by looking out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mid-City, Los Angeles
Mid City (also Mid-City) is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California. Attractions include restaurants and a post office named for singer Ray Charles, who had his recording studio in Mid City. The neighborhood hosts eleven public and private schools. The K Line from north-south is proposed to serve this area. Geography City of Los Angeles boundaries The City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation has posted Mid City signage to mark the area. City installed signs are at the following intersections (from east to west): Hoover Street and Washington Boulevard, Vermont Avenue and Pico Boulevard, Western Avenue and Pico Boulevard, Normandie Avenue and the Santa Monica Freeway, and La Brea Avenue and the Santa Monica Freeway. Google Maps Google Maps outlines an area labeled "Mid City" that roughly runs from Hoover Street on the east to La Cienega Boulevard and Robertson Boulevard on the west. The north is roughly bordered by Olympic Boulevard, and the Santa M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faircrest Heights, Los Angeles
Faircrest Heights is a neighborhood in Mid-City, Los Angeles, California. Emily Alpert Reyes, "Houses Bigger, But Better?" ''Los Angeles Times,'' May 5, 2014, image 9 In December 2004, ''Los Angeles'' magazine named Faircrest Heights one of the "10 Best Districts You've Never Heard Of". Geography ''Los Angeles Magazine'' In December 2004, ''Los Angeles Magazine'' bounded the neighborhood as on the west, Fairfax Avenue on the east, Pico Boulevard on the north and Guthrie Avenue on the south. It lay south of |
List Of Sovereign States
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty. The 206 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership within the United Nations System: 193 UN member states, 2 UN General Assembly non-member observer states, and 11 other states. The ''sovereignty dispute'' column indicates states having undisputed sovereignty (188 states, of which there are 187 UN member states and 1 UN General Assembly non-member observer state), states having disputed sovereignty (16 states, of which there are 6 UN member states, 1 UN General Assembly non-member observer state, and 9 de facto states), and states having a special political status (2 states, both in free association with New Zealand). Compiling a list such as this can be a complicated and controversial process, as there is no definition that is binding on all the members of the community of nations concerni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
