Los Angeles

CSA Los Angeles-Long Beach

MSA Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim

Pueblo September 4, 1781[3]

City status May 23, 1835[4]

Incorporated April 4, 1850[5]

Named for Our Lady, Queen of the Angels

Government

 • Type Mayor-Council-Commission[6]

 • Body Los Angeles
Los Angeles City Council

 • Mayor Eric Garcetti[7]

 • City Attorney Mike Feuer[7]

 • City Controller Ron Galperin[7]

Area[8]

 • City in California 502.76 sq mi (1,302.15 km2)

 • Land 468.74 sq mi (1,214.03 km2)

 • Water 34.02 sq mi (88.12 km2)  6.7%

Elevation[9] 305 ft (93 m)

Highest elevation[10] 5,074 ft (1,547 m)

Lowest elevation[10] 0 ft (0 m)

Population (2010)[11]

 • City in California 3,792,621

 • Estimate (2016)[12] 3,976,322

 • Rank 1st, California 2nd, U.S.

 • Density 8,483.02/sq mi (3,275.32/km2)

 • Urban[13] 12,150,996

 • Metro[14] 13,131,431

 • CSA[15] 18,679,763 (US: 2nd)

Demonym(s) Angeleno

Time zone Pacific (UTC−8)

 • Summer (DST) PDT (UTC−7)

ZIP Codes

List

90001–90084, 90086–90089, 90091, 90093–90097, 90099, 90101–90103, 90174, 90185, 90189, 90291–90293, 91040–91043, 91303–91308, 91311, 91316, 91324-91328, 91330,91331, 91335, 913340, 91342–91349, 91352–91353, 91356–91357, 91364–91367, 91401–91499, 91504-91505, 91601–91609[16]

Area codes 213/323, 310/424, 747/818

FIPS code 06-44000

GNIS feature IDs 1662328, 2410877

Website Official website

Los Angeles
Los Angeles (/lɒs ˈændʒələs/ ( listen);[17] Spanish for "The Angels"; Spanish: [los ˈaŋxeles]; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquial: by its initials L.A.) is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a U.S. Census-estimated 2016 population of 3,976,322,[18] it is the second most populous city in the United States
United States (after New York City) and the most populous city in the state of California. Located in a large coastal basin surrounded on three sides by mountains reaching up to and over 10,000 feet (3,000 m), Los Angeles
Los Angeles covers an area of about 469 square miles (1,210 km2).[19] The city is also the seat of Los Angeles
Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the country. Los Angeles is the center of the Los Angeles
Los Angeles metropolitan area, with 13,131,431 residents,[20] and is part of the larger designated Los Angeles-Long Beach combined statistical area (CSA), the second most populous in the nation with a 2015 estimated population of 18.7 million.[21] Historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles
Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain
Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was officially founded on September 4, 1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico
Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence. In 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles
Los Angeles and the rest of California
California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles
Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4, 1850, five months before California
California achieved statehood. The discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city.[22] The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, later assured the city's continued rapid growth. Nicknamed the "City of Angels" in part because of how its name translates from the Spanish, Los Angeles
Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. The city is also one of the most substantial economic engines within the nation, with a diverse economy in a broad range of professional and cultural fields. Los Angeles
Los Angeles is also famous as the home of Hollywood, a major center of the world entertainment industry. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index and 9th in the Global Economic Power Index. The Los Angeles
Los Angeles combined statistical area (CSA) also has a gross metropolitan product (GMP) of $831 billion (as of 2008[update]), making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. Los Angeles
Los Angeles hosted the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics
1984 Summer Olympics and will host the Olympic Games for a third time in 2028.

Contents

1 History

1.1 Pre-colonial period, up to 1771 1.2 Spanish period, 1771 to 1821 1.3 Mexican period, 1821 to 1847 1.4 American period, 1847 to the present

2 Geography

2.1 Cityscape 2.2 Overview

2.2.1 Landmarks

2.3 Topography 2.4 Vegetation 2.5 Geology 2.6 Climate 2.7 Environmental issues

3 Demographics

3.1 Race and ethnicity 3.2 Religion

4 Economy

4.1 Fortune 500

5 Culture

5.1 Movies and the performing arts 5.2 Museums and galleries

6 Sports 7 Government

7.1 Federal and state representation 7.2 Crime

8 Education

8.1 Colleges and universities 8.2 Schools and libraries

9 Media 10 Transportation

10.1 Freeways 10.2 Transit systems 10.3 Airports 10.4 Seaports

11 Notable people 12 Twin towns and sister cities 13 See also 14 References 15 Further reading 16 External links

History Main article: History of Los Angeles See also: Timeline of Los Angeles
Timeline of Los Angeles and Los Angeles
Los Angeles in the 1920s

Historical affiliations

Spanish Empire
Spanish Empire 1781–1821 First Mexican Empire
First Mexican Empire 1821–1823 United Mexican States
United Mexican States 1823–1848 California
California Republic 1846   United States
United States 1848–present

Pre-colonial period, up to 1771 The Los Angeles
Los Angeles coastal area was settled by the Tongva
Tongva (Gabrieleños) and Chumash Native Californian tribes. A Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ (written Yang-na by the Spanish), meaning "poison oak place."[23][24] Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, a Portuguese-born explorer, claimed the area of southern California
California for the Spanish Empire
Spanish Empire in 1542 while on an official military exploring expedition moving north along the Pacific coast from earlier colonizing bases of New Spain
New Spain in Central and South America.[25] Gaspar de Portolà
Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan
Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles
Los Angeles on August 2, 1769.[26] Spanish period, 1771 to 1821

Chumash people
Chumash people lived in Los Angeles
Los Angeles before Europeans settled there.

In 1771, Franciscan
Franciscan friar Junípero Serra
Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area.[27] On September 4, 1781, a group of forty-four settlers known as "Los Pobladores" founded the pueblo they called "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula"; in English, this translates as "The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula". The Queen of the Angels (feast day August 2) is an honorific of the Virgin Mary;[28] the present-day city still retains an active Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic Archdiocese, and remains the largest such archdiocese in the United States. Two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry.[29] The settlement remained a small ranch town for decades, but by 1820, the population had increased to about 650 residents.[30] Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the historic district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street, the oldest part of Los Angeles.[31] Mexican period, 1821 to 1847 New Spain
New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire
Spanish Empire in 1821, and the pueblo continued as a part of Mexico. During Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico
Pío Pico made Los Angeles
Los Angeles Alta California's regional capital.[32] American period, 1847 to the present

Old Los Angeles

Los Ángeles Plaza in 1869, looking north towards Upper Town.

Legend

The Old Aliso, giant sycamore, historical symbol of Los Angeles. The Covered Bridge (Macy Street) Fort Moore The Calaboose (original adobe jail) Poundcake Hill Council Chamber Government House, seat of the Asamblea when Los Angeles
Los Angeles was the capital. Clocktower Courthouse, courtroom/theatre was on the upper floor, market was on the ground floor, and clocktower was on top, with copper dome. St. Athanasius's Episcopal Church, first Protestant church in Los Angeles, on Temple Road ("Salvation Alley"). Calle de los Negros Mellus Block, Gen. Kearney's headquarters Gov. Downey's house Old stage road, to Cahuenga Valley & the back way to San Fernando. Placita Church Wine Street, (Calle de las vides) Main Plaza Water wheel on the Zanja Madre Approximate run of the original Los Angeles River
Los Angeles River bed, to current USC, through the former swamps of Leimert Park, and out to sea at Ballona Creek and Venice Beach.

LP: Lower Plaza

ECR: El Camino Real

Mexican rule ended during the Mexican–American War: Americans took control from the Californios
Californios after a series of battles, culminating with the signing of the Treaty of Cahuenga
Treaty of Cahuenga on January 13, 1847.[33] Railroads arrived with the completion of the Southern Pacific line to Los Angeles
Los Angeles in 1876.[34] Oil was discovered in the city and surrounding area in 1892, and by 1923, the discoveries had helped California
California become the country's largest oil producer, accounting for about one-quarter of the world's petroleum output.[35] By 1900, the population had grown to more than 102,000,[36] putting pressure on the city's water supply.[37] The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, under the supervision of William Mulholland, assured the continued growth of the city.[38] Due to clauses in the city's charter that effectively prevented the City of Los Angeles
Los Angeles from selling or providing water from the aqueduct to any area outside its borders, many adjacent city and communities became compelled to annex themselves into Los Angeles.[39][40][41] Los Angeles
Los Angeles created the first municipal zoning ordinance in the United States. On September 14, 1908, Los Angeles City Council
Los Angeles City Council promulgated residential and industrial land use zones. The new ordinance established three residential zones of a single type, where industrial uses were prohibited. The proscriptions included barns, lumber yards, and any industrial land use employing machine-powered equipment. These laws were enforced against industrial properties after-the-fact. These prohibitions were in addition to existing activities which were already regulated as nuisances. These included explosives warehousing, gas works, oil-drilling, slaughterhouses, and tanneries. Los Angeles City Council also designated seven industrial zones within the city. However, between 1908 and 1915, Los Angeles City Council
Los Angeles City Council created various exceptions to the broad proscriptions which applied to these three residential zones, and as a consequence, some industrial uses emerged within them. There are two differences from the 1908 Residence District Ordinance and later zoning laws in the United States. First, the 1908 laws did not establish a comprehensive zoning map as the 1916 New York City
New York City Zoning
Zoning Ordinance did. Second, the residential zones did not distinguish types of housing: it treated apartments, hotels, and detached-single-family housing equally.[42] In 1910, Hollywood
Hollywood merged into Los Angeles, with 10 movie companies already operating in the city at the time. By 1921, more than 80 percent of the world's film industry was concentrated in L.A.[43] The money generated by the industry kept the city insulated from much of the economic loss suffered by the rest of the country during the Great Depression.[44] By 1930, the population surpassed one million.[45] In 1932, the city hosted the Summer Olympics. During World War II, Los Angeles
Los Angeles was a major center of wartime manufacturing, such as shipbuilding and aircraft. Calship built hundreds of Liberty Ships and Victory Ships on Terminal Island, and the Los Angeles
Los Angeles area was the headquarters of six of the country's major aircraft manufacturers (Douglas Aircraft Company, Hughes Aircraft, Lockheed, North American Aviation, Northrop Corporation, and Vultee). During the war, more aircraft were produced in one year than in all the pre-war years since the Wright brothers flew the first airplane in 1903, combined. Manufacturing in Los Angeles
Los Angeles skyrocketed, and as William S. Knudsen, of the National Defense Advisory Commission put it, "We won because we smothered the enemy in an avalanche of production, the like of which he had never seen, nor dreamed possible.[46]

The Richfield Tower, an Art Deco
Art Deco landmark of 1929, was demolished in 1969.

Following the end of World War II, Los Angeles
Los Angeles grew more rapidly than ever, sprawling into the San Fernando Valley.[47] The expansion of the Interstate Highway System
Interstate Highway System during the 1950s and 1960s helped propel suburban growth and signaled the demise of the city's electrified rail system, once the world's largest. The 1960s saw race relations boil over into the Watts Riots
Watts Riots of 1965 which resulted in 34 deaths and over 1,000 injuries. It was the most severe riot in the city's history until the Los Angeles
Los Angeles riots of 1992. In 1969, Los Angeles
Los Angeles became the birthplace of the Internet, as the first ARPANET
ARPANET transmission was sent from the University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles (UCLA) to SRI in Menlo Park.[48] In 1984, the city hosted the Summer Olympic Games
Summer Olympic Games for the second time. Despite being boycotted by 14 Communist countries, the 1984 Olympics became more financially successful than any previous,[49] and the second Olympics to turn a profit until then – the other, according to an analysis of contemporary newspaper reports, being the 1932 Summer Olympics, also held in Los Angeles.[50] Racial tensions erupted on April 29, 1992, with the acquittal by a Simi Valley
Simi Valley jury of the police officers captured on videotape beating Rodney King, culminating in large-scale riots.[51] They were the largest riots in US history causing approximately $1.3 billion in damage as well as 53 deaths and over 2,000 injuries.[52][53] In 1994, the 6.7 Northridge earthquake
Northridge earthquake shook the city, causing $12.5 billion in damage and 72 deaths.[54] The century ended with the Rampart scandal, one of the most extensive documented cases of police misconduct in American history.[55] In 2002, voters defeated efforts by the San Fernando Valley
San Fernando Valley and Hollywood
Hollywood to secede from the city.[56] Los Angeles
Los Angeles will host the 2028 Summer Olympics
2028 Summer Olympics and Paralympic Games, making Los Angeles
Los Angeles the third city to host the Olympics three times.[57][58] Geography See also: Los Angeles
Los Angeles Basin; San Fernando Valley; Greater Los Angeles Area; and Los Angeles
Los Angeles County, California Cityscape Main article: List of districts and neighborhoods of Los Angeles

Panorama of Los Angeles
Los Angeles as viewed from Griffith Observatory. Left to right: Los Feliz, Downtown and Hollywood

The city is divided into over 80 districts and neighborhoods,[59] many of which were incorporated places or communities that merged into the city.[60] These neighborhoods were developed piecemeal, and are well-defined enough that the city has signage marking nearly all of them.[61] More broadly, the city is divided into the following areas: Downtown Los Angeles, East Los Angeles
Los Angeles and Northeast Los Angeles, South Los Angeles, the Harbor Area, Greater Hollywood, Wilshire, the Westside, and the San Fernando and Crescenta Valleys. Overview

Hollywood, one of the city's best known neighborhoods

The city's street pattern generally follows a grid plan, with uniform block lengths and occasional roads that cut across blocks. However, this is complicated by rugged terrain, which has necessitated having different grids for each of the valleys that Los Angeles
Los Angeles covers. Major streets are designed to move large volumes of traffic through many parts of the city; many of which are extremely long: Sepulveda Boulevard is 43 miles (69 km) long, while Foothill Boulevard is over 60 miles (97 km) long, reaching as far east as San Bernardino. Drivers in Los Angeles
Los Angeles suffer from one of the worst rush hour periods in the world, according to an annual traffic index by navigation system maker, TomTom. L.A. drivers spend an additional 92 hours in traffic each year. During the peak rush hour there is 80% congestion, according to the index.[62] Los Angeles
Los Angeles is often characterized by the presence of low-rise buildings. Outside of a few centers such as Downtown, Warner Center, Century City, Koreatown, Miracle Mile, Hollywood
Hollywood and Westwood, skyscrapers and high-rise buildings are not common. The few skyscrapers that are built outside of those areas often stand out above the rest of the surrounding landscape. Most construction is done in separate units, rather than wall-to-wall. That being said, downtown Los Angeles
Los Angeles itself has many buildings over 30 stories, with fourteen over 50 stories, and two over 70 stories (the tallest buildings west of Chicago-see List of tallest buildings in Los Angeles). Also, Los Angeles is increasingly becoming a city of apartments rather than single family dwellings, especially in the dense inner city and Westside neighborhoods. Landmarks See also: List of sites of interest in the Los Angeles area
List of sites of interest in the Los Angeles area and National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles, California Important landmarks in Los Angeles
Los Angeles include the Hollywood
Hollywood Sign, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Capitol Records Building, the Cathedral
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Angels Flight, Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Dolby Theatre, Griffith Observatory, Getty Center, Getty Villa, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Venice Canal Historic District
Venice Canal Historic District and boardwalk, Theme Building, Bradbury Building, U.S. Bank Tower, Wilshire Grand Center, Hollywood
Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles
Los Angeles City Hall, Hollywood
Hollywood Bowl, Battleship USS Iowa, Watts Towers, Staples Center, Dodger Stadium, and Olvera Street.

L.A. Live

Grauman's Chinese Theatre

Griffith Observatory

Capitol Records Building

Angels Flight

Downtown Los Angeles

Battleship Iowa

Topography

The Los Angeles
Los Angeles Basin

The city of Los Angeles
Los Angeles covers a total area of 502.7 square miles (1,302 km2), comprising 468.7 square miles (1,214 km2) of land and 34.0 square miles (88 km2) of water.[19] The city extends for 44 miles (71 km) longitudinally and for 29 miles (47 km) latitudinally. The perimeter of the city is 342 miles (550 km). Los Angeles
Los Angeles is both flat and hilly. The highest point in the city proper is 5,074 ft (1,547 m) Mount Lukens,[63][64] located at the northeastern end of the San Fernando Valley. The eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains
Santa Monica Mountains stretches from Downtown to the Pacific Ocean and separates the Los Angeles Basin
Los Angeles Basin from the San Fernando Valley. Other hilly parts of Los Angeles
Los Angeles include the Mt. Washington area north of Downtown, eastern parts such as Boyle Heights, the Crenshaw district around the Baldwin Hills, and the San Pedro district. Surrounding the city are much higher mountains. Immediately to the north lie the San Gabriel Mountains, which is a popular recreation area for Angelenos. Its high point is Mount San Antonio, locally known as Mount Baldy, which reaches 10,064 feet (3,068 m). Further afield, the highest point in the greater Los Angeles
Los Angeles area is San Gorgonio Mountain, with a height of 11,503 feet (3,506 m). The Los Angeles
Los Angeles River, which is largely seasonal, is the primary drainage channel. It was straightened and lined in 51 miles (82 km) of concrete by the Army Corps of Engineers to act as a flood control channel.[65] The river begins in the Canoga Park district of the city, flows east from the San Fernando Valley
San Fernando Valley along the north edge of the Santa Monica
Santa Monica Mountains, and turns south through the city center, flowing to its mouth in the Port of Long Beach
Port of Long Beach at the Pacific Ocean. The smaller Ballona Creek
Ballona Creek flows into the Santa Monica Bay at Playa del Rey. Vegetation Los Angeles
Los Angeles is rich in native plant species partly because of its diversity of habitats, including beaches, wetlands, and mountains. The most prevalent plant communities are coastal sage scrub, chaparral shrubland, and riparian woodland.[66] Native plants include: California
California poppy, matilija poppy, toyon, Ceanothus, Chamise, Coast Live Oak, sycamore, willow and Giant Wildrye. Many of these native species, such as the Los Angeles
Los Angeles sunflower, have become so rare as to be considered endangered. Though it is not native to the area, the official tree of Los Angeles
Los Angeles is the Coral Tree (Erythrina caffra)[67] and the official flower of Los Angeles
Los Angeles is the Bird of Paradise (Strelitzia reginae).[68] Mexican Fan Palms, Canary Island Palms, Queen Palms, Date Palms, and California
California Fan Palms are common in the Los Angeles
Los Angeles area, although only the last is native. Geology Los Angeles
Los Angeles is subject to earthquakes because of its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire. The geologic instability has produced numerous faults, which cause approximately 10,000 earthquakes annually in Southern California, though most of them are too small to be felt.[69] The strike-slip San Andreas Fault
San Andreas Fault system is located at the boundary between the Pacific Plate
Pacific Plate and the North American Plate, and is vulnerable to the "big one", a potentially large and damaging event.[70] The Los Angeles
Los Angeles basin and metropolitan area are also at risk from blind thrust earthquakes.[71] Major earthquakes that have hit the Los Angeles
Los Angeles area include the 1933 Long Beach, 1971 San Fernando, 1987 Whittier Narrows, and the 1994 Northridge events. Nevertheless, all but a few are of low intensity and are not felt. The USGS has released the UCERF California
California earthquake forecast which models earthquake occurrence in California. Parts of the city are also vulnerable to tsunamis; harbor areas were damaged by waves from the Valdivia earthquake in 1960.[72] Climate Main article: Climate of Los Angeles

MacArthur Park
MacArthur Park in Westlake

Los Angeles
Los Angeles has a Mediterranean climate
Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification Csb on the coast, Csa inland), and receives just enough annual precipitation to avoid Köppen's BSn (mild semi-arid climate) classification. Los Angeles
Los Angeles has plenty of sunshine throughout the year, with an average of only 35 days with measurable precipitation annually.[73] The coastal region around Los Angeles
Los Angeles has a climate that is comparable to coastal areas of southeastern Spain
Spain such as Alicante or Elche, in temperature range and variation, in sunshine hours and as well as annual precipitation levels. Temperatures in the coastal basin exceed 90 °F (32 °C) on a dozen or so days in the year, from one day a month in April, May, June and November to three days a month in July, August, October and to five days in September.[73] Temperatures in the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys are considerably warmer. Temperatures are subject to substantial daily swings; in inland areas the difference between the average daily low and the average daily high is over 30 °F (17 °C).[74] The average annual temperature of the sea is 63 °F (17 °C), from 58 °F (14 °C) in January to 68 °F (20 °C) in August.[75] Hours of sunshine total more than 3,000 per year, from an average of 7 hours of sunshine per day in December to an average of 12 in July.[76] The Los Angeles
Los Angeles area is also subject to phenomena typical of a microclimate, causing extreme variations in temperature in close physical proximity to each other. For instance, the average July maximum temperature at the Santa Monica Pier
Santa Monica Pier is 75 °F (24 °C) whereas it is 95 °F (35 °C) in Canoga Park.[77] The city, like much of the southern California
California coast, is subject to a late spring/early summer weather phenomenon called "June Gloom". This involves overcast or foggy skies in the morning which yield to sun by early afternoon.[78] Downtown Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles averages 14.93 in (379 mm) of precipitation annually, which mainly occurs during November through March,[74] generally in the form of moderate rain showers, but sometimes as heavy rainfall during winter storms. Summer days are usually rainless. Rarely, an incursion of moist air from the south or east can bring brief thunderstorms in late summer, especially to the mountains. The coast gets slightly less rainfall, while the inland and mountain areas get considerably more. Years of average rainfall are rare. The usual pattern is year to year variability, with a short string of dry years of 5–10 in (130–250 mm) rainfall, followed by one or two wet years with more than 20 in (510 mm).[74] Wet years are usually associated with warm water El Niño conditions in the Pacific, dry years with cooler water La Niña episodes. A series of rainy days can bring floods to the lowlands and mudslides to the hills, especially after wildfires have denuded the slopes. Both freezing temperatures and snowfall are extremely rare in the city basin and along the coast, with the last occurrence of a 32 °F (0 °C) reading at the downtown station being January 29, 1979;[74] freezing temperatures occur nearly every year in valley locations while the mountains within city limits typically receive snowfall every winter. The greatest snowfall recorded in downtown Los Angeles was 2.0 inches (5 cm) on January 15, 1932.[74][79] At the official downtown station, the highest recorded temperature is 113 °F (45 °C) on September 27, 2010,[74][80] while the lowest is 28 °F (−2 °C),[74] on January 4, 1949.[74] During autumn and winter, Santa Ana winds
Santa Ana winds sometimes bring much warmer and drier conditions to Los Angeles, and raise the wildfire risk.

Climate data for Los Angeles
Los Angeles (USC, Downtown), 1981–2010 normals, extremes 1877–present

Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year

Record high °F (°C) 95 (35) 95 (35) 99 (37) 106 (41) 103 (39) 112 (44) 109 (43) 106 (41) 113 (45) 108 (42) 100 (38) 92 (33) 113 (45)

Mean maximum °F (°C) 83.3 (28.5) 84.3 (29.1) 85.8 (29.9) 91.2 (32.9) 89.7 (32.1) 90.2 (32.3) 94.1 (34.5) 95.3 (35.2) 98.9 (37.2) 95.5 (35.3) 88.0 (31.1) 81.4 (27.4) 102.7 (39.3)

Average high °F (°C) 68.2 (20.1) 68.6 (20.3) 70.2 (21.2) 72.7 (22.6) 74.5 (23.6) 78.1 (25.6) 83.1 (28.4) 84.4 (29.1) 83.1 (28.4) 78.5 (25.8) 72.8 (22.7) 67.7 (19.8) 75.2 (24)

Daily mean °F (°C) 58.0 (14.4) 58.9 (14.9) 60.6 (15.9) 63.1 (17.3) 65.8 (18.8) 69.2 (20.7) 73.3 (22.9) 74.3 (23.5) 73.1 (22.8) 68.6 (20.3) 62.4 (16.9) 57.6 (14.2) 65.4 (18.6)

Average low °F (°C) 47.8 (8.8) 49.3 (9.6) 51.0 (10.6) 53.5 (11.9) 57.1 (13.9) 60.3 (15.7) 63.6 (17.6) 64.1 (17.8) 63.1 (17.3) 58.7 (14.8) 52.0 (11.1) 47.5 (8.6) 55.7 (13.2)

Mean minimum °F (°C) 41.3 (5.2) 42.9 (6.1) 44.9 (7.2) 48.4 (9.1) 53.6 (12) 57.2 (14) 61.2 (16.2) 61.8 (16.6) 59.2 (15.1) 54.1 (12.3) 45.0 (7.2) 40.8 (4.9) 39.1 (3.9)

Record low °F (°C) 28 (−2) 28 (−2) 31 (−1) 36 (2) 40 (4) 46 (8) 49 (9) 49 (9) 44 (7) 40 (4) 34 (1) 30 (−1) 28 (−2)

Average rainfall inches (mm) 3.12 (79.2) 3.80 (96.5) 2.43 (61.7) 0.91 (23.1) 0.26 (6.6) 0.09 (2.3) 0.01 (0.3) 0.04 (1) 0.24 (6.1) 0.66 (16.8) 1.04 (26.4) 2.33 (59.2) 14.93 (379.2)

Average rainy days (≥ 0.01 in) 6.1 6.4 5.5 3.2 1.3 0.6 0.3 0.3 1.0 2.5 3.3 5.2 35.7

Mean monthly sunshine hours 225.3 222.5 267.0 303.5 276.2 275.8 364.1 349.5 278.5 255.1 217.3 219.4 3,254.2

Percent possible sunshine 71 72 72 78 64 64 83 84 75 73 70 71 73

Source: NOAA (sun 1961–1977)[81][82][83]

Climate data for Los Angeles
Los Angeles (LAX), 1981–2010 normals, extremes 1944–present

Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year

Record high °F (°C) 91 (33) 92 (33) 95 (35) 95 (35) 91 (33) 103 (39) 93 (34) 98 (37) 106 (41) 101 (38) 101 (38) 94 (34) 106 (41)

Mean maximum °F (°C) 81.2 (27.3) 81.0 (27.2) 79.6 (26.4) 83.4 (28.6) 79.9 (26.6) 80.0 (26.7) 83.6 (28.7) 85.7 (29.8) 90.1 (32.3) 89.9 (32.2) 85.5 (29.7) 78.9 (26.1) 94.7 (34.8)

Average high °F (°C) 64.6 (18.1) 64.3 (17.9) 64.4 (18) 66.4 (19.1) 68.1 (20.1) 70.6 (21.4) 73.8 (23.2) 74.9 (23.8) 74.6 (23.7) 72.5 (22.5) 68.9 (20.5) 64.6 (18.1) 69.0 (20.6)

Daily mean °F (°C) 56.7 (13.7) 57.1 (13.9) 58.0 (14.4) 60.1 (15.6) 62.7 (17.1) 65.5 (18.6) 68.8 (20.4) 69.6 (20.9) 68.9 (20.5) 65.9 (18.8) 61.1 (16.2) 56.6 (13.7) 62.6 (17)

Average low °F (°C) 48.8 (9.3) 50.0 (10) 51.7 (10.9) 53.8 (12.1) 57.3 (14.1) 60.5 (15.8) 63.7 (17.6) 64.3 (17.9) 63.2 (17.3) 59.3 (15.2) 53.2 (11.8) 48.7 (9.3) 56.2 (13.4)

Mean minimum °F (°C) 41.1 (5.1) 42.5 (5.8) 44.6 (7) 47.5 (8.6) 52.5 (11.4) 56.2 (13.4) 59.8 (15.4) 60.6 (15.9) 58.4 (14.7) 52.7 (11.5) 45.3 (7.4) 40.9 (4.9) 38.8 (3.8)

Record low °F (°C) 27 (−3) 34 (1) 35 (2) 42 (6) 45 (7) 48 (9) 52 (11) 51 (11) 47 (8) 43 (6) 38 (3) 32 (0) 27 (−3)

Average rainfall inches (mm) 2.71 (68.8) 3.25 (82.6) 1.85 (47) 0.70 (17.8) 0.22 (5.6) 0.08 (2) 0.03 (0.8) 0.05 (1.3) 0.21 (5.3) 0.56 (14.2) 1.11 (28.2) 2.05 (52.1) 12.82 (325.6)

Average rainy days (≥ 0.01 in) 6.0 6.6 5.8 2.8 1.2 0.6 0.5 0.3 1.0 2.3 3.4 5.2 35.7

Average relative humidity (%) 63.4 67.9 70.5 71.0 74.0 75.9 76.6 76.6 74.2 70.5 65.5 62.9 70.8

Source: NOAA (relative humidity 1961–1990)[81][84][85]

Climate data for Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Canoga Park, in the San Fernando Valley)

Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year

Record high °F (°C) 93 (34) 94 (34) 101 (38) 105 (41) 113 (45) 113 (45) 115 (46) 116 (47) 115 (46) 110 (43) 99 (37) 96 (36) 116 (47)

Average high °F (°C) 67.9 (19.9) 69.9 (21.1) 72.0 (22.2) 77.7 (25.4) 81.3 (27.4) 88.8 (31.6) 95.0 (35) 96.0 (35.6) 91.7 (33.2) 84.4 (29.1) 74.7 (23.7) 68.8 (20.4) 80.7 (27.1)

Daily mean °F (°C) 53.7 (12.1) 55.4 (13) 57.2 (14) 61.3 (16.3) 65.2 (18.4) 71.0 (21.7) 76.0 (24.4) 76.8 (24.9) 73.5 (23.1) 66.8 (19.3) 58.2 (14.6) 53.6 (12) 64.1 (17.8)

Average low °F (°C) 39.5 (4.2) 40.9 (4.9) 42.3 (5.7) 44.8 (7.1) 49.1 (9.5) 53.2 (11.8) 56.9 (13.8) 57.6 (14.2) 55.2 (12.9) 49.2 (9.6) 41.7 (5.4) 38.3 (3.5) 47.4 (8.6)

Record low °F (°C) 19 (−7) 18 (−8) 26 (−3) 30 (−1) 33 (1) 36 (2) 42 (6) 42 (6) 38 (3) 27 (−3) 23 (−5) 20 (−7) 18 (−8)

Average rainfall inches (mm) 3.83 (97.3) 4.40 (111.8) 3.60 (91.4) 0.88 (22.4) 0.32 (8.1) 0.07 (1.8) 0.01 (0.3) 0.15 (3.8) 0.24 (6.1) 0.62 (15.7) 1.29 (32.8) 2.38 (60.5) 17.79 (452)

Average rainy days 6.2 5.9 6.1 3.0 1.3 0.4 0.1 0.7 1.3 2.0 3.2 4.4 34.6

Source: NOAA[74]

Environmental issues Further information: Pollution in California
California §  Los Angeles
Los Angeles air pollution

A view of Los Angeles
Los Angeles covered in smog

A Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ (written Yang-na by the Spanish), which has been translated as "poison oak place".[23][24] Yang-na has also been translated as "the valley of smoke".[86][87] Owing to geography, heavy reliance on automobiles, and the Los Angeles/Long Beach port complex, Los Angeles
Los Angeles suffers from air pollution in the form of smog. The Los Angeles Basin
Los Angeles Basin and the San Fernando Valley are susceptible to atmospheric inversion, which holds in the exhausts from road vehicles, airplanes, locomotives, shipping, manufacturing, and other sources.[88] The smog season lasts from approximately May to October.[89] While other large cities rely on rain to clear smog, Los Angeles
Los Angeles gets only 15 inches (380 mm) of rain each year: pollution accumulates over many consecutive days. Issues of air quality in Los Angeles
Los Angeles and other major cities led to the passage of early national environmental legislation, including the Clean Air Act. More recently, the state of California
California has led the nation in working to limit pollution by mandating low-emission vehicles. Smog
Smog is expected to continue to drop in the coming years because of aggressive steps to reduce it, which include electric and hybrid cars, improvements in mass transit, and other measures. The number of Stage 1 smog alerts in Los Angeles
Los Angeles has declined from over 100 per year in the 1970s to almost zero in the new millennium.[90] Despite improvement, the 2006 and 2007 annual reports of the American Lung Association
American Lung Association ranked the city as the most polluted in the country with short-term particle pollution and year-round particle pollution.[91] In 2008, the city was ranked the second most polluted and again had the highest year-round particulate pollution.[92] The city met its goal of providing 20 percent of the city's power from renewable sources in 2010.[93] The American Lung Association's 2013 survey ranks the metro area as having the nation's worst smog, and fourth in both short-term and year-round pollution amounts.[94] Los Angeles
Los Angeles is also home to the nation's largest urban oil field. There are more than 700 active oil wells located within 1,500 feet of homes, churches, schools and hospitals in the city, a situation about which the EPA has voiced serious concerns.[95] Demographics Main article: Demographics of Los Angeles

Percent of households with incomes above $150k across LA County census tracts.

Historical population

Census Pop.

%±

1850 1,610

—

1860 4,385

172.4%

1870 5,728

30.6%

1880 11,183

95.2%

1890 50,395

350.6%

1900 102,479

103.4%

1910 319,198

211.5%

1920 576,673

80.7%

1930 1,238,048

114.7%

1940 1,504,277

21.5%

1950 1,970,358

31.0%

1960 2,479,015

25.8%

1970 2,811,801

13.4%

1980 2,968,528

5.6%

1990 3,485,398

17.4%

2000 3,694,820

6.0%

2010 3,792,621

2.6%

Est. 2016 3,976,322 [12] 4.8%

U.S. Decennial Census[96]

The 2010 United States
United States Census[97] reported that Los Angeles
Los Angeles had a population of 3,792,621.[98] The population density was 8,092.3 people per square mile (2,913.0/km²). The age distribution was 874,525 people (23.1%) under 18, 434,478 people (11.5%) from 18 to 24, 1,209,367 people (31.9%) from 25 to 44, 877,555 people (23.1%) from 45 to 64, and 396,696 people (10.5%) who were 65 or older.[98] The median age was 34.1 years. For every 100 females there were 99.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.6 males.[98] There were 1,413,995 housing units—up from 1,298,350 during 2005–2009[98]—at an average density of 2,812.8 households per square mile (1,086.0/km²), of which 503,863 (38.2%) were owner-occupied, and 814,305 (61.8%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 2.1%; the rental vacancy rate was 6.1%. 1,535,444 people (40.5% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 2,172,576 people (57.3%) lived in rental housing units.[98] According to the 2010 United States
United States Census, Los Angeles
Los Angeles had a median household income of $49,497, with 22.0% of the population living below the federal poverty line.[98] Race and ethnicity

Racial composition 2010[98] 1990[99] 1970[99] 1940[99]

Non- Hispanic
Hispanic White 28.7% 37.3% 61.1%[100] 86.3%

Black or African American 9.6% 14.0% 17.9% 4.2%

Hispanic
Hispanic or Latino 48.5% 39.9% 17.1%[100] 7.1%[101]

Asian 11.3% 9.8% 3.6% 2.2%

Map of racial distribution in Los Angeles, 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot is 25 people: White, Black, Asian, Hispanic
Hispanic or Other (yellow)

According to the 2010 Census, the racial makeup of Los Angeles included: 1,888,158 Whites (49.8%), 365,118 African Americans
African Americans (9.6%), 28,215 Native Americans (0.7%), 426,959 Asians (11.3%), 5,577 Pacific Islanders (0.1%), 902,959 from other races (23.8%), and 175,635 (4.6%) from two or more races.[98] Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 1,838,822 persons (48.5%). Los Angeles
Los Angeles is home to people from more than 140 countries speaking 224 different identified languages.[102] Ethnic enclaves like Chinatown, Historic Filipinotown, Koreatown, Little Armenia, Little Ethiopia, Tehrangeles, Little Tokyo, Little Bangladesh, and Thai Town provide examples of the polyglot character of Los Angeles. Non-Hispanic whites
Non-Hispanic whites were 28.7% of the population in 2010,[98] compared to 86.3% in 1940.[99] The majority of the Non- Hispanic
Hispanic white population is living in areas along the Pacific coast as well as in neighborhoods near and on the Santa Monica Mountains
Santa Monica Mountains from the Pacific Palisades to Los Feliz. Mexican ancestry make up the largest ethnic group of Hispanics at 31.9% of Los Angeles's population, followed by those of Salvadoran (6.0%) and Guatemalan (3.6%) heritage. The Hispanic
Hispanic population has a long established Mexican-American and Central American community and is spread well-nigh throughout the entire city of Los Angeles
Los Angeles and its metropolitan area. It is most heavily concentrated in regions around Downtown as East Los Angeles, Northeast Los Angeles
Northeast Los Angeles and Westlake. Furthermore, a vast majority of residents in neighborhoods in eastern South Los Angeles
South Los Angeles towards Downey are of Hispanic
Hispanic origin. The largest Asian ethnic groups are Filipinos (3.2%) and Koreans (2.9%), which have their own established ethnic enclaves−Koreatown in the Wilshire Center and Historic Filipinotown. Chinese people, which make up 1.8% of Los Angeles's population, reside mostly outside of Los Angeles
Los Angeles city limits and rather in the San Gabriel Valley
San Gabriel Valley of eastern Los Angeles
Los Angeles County, but make a sizable presence in the city, notably in Chinatown. Chinatown and Thaitown are also home to many Thais and Cambodians, which make up 0.3% and 0.1% of Los Angeles's population, respectively. Japanese comprise 0.9% of L.A.'s population, and have an established Little Tokyo
Tokyo in the city's downtown, and another significant community of Japanese Americans is located in the Sawtelle district of West Los Angeles. Vietnamese make up 0.5% of Los Angeles's population. Indians make up 0.9% of the city's population. The Los Angeles metropolitan area
Los Angeles metropolitan area is home to a large population of Armenians and Iranians, many of whom live in enclaves like Little Armenia and Tehrangeles. See also: African-American
African-American neighborhoods in Los Angeles African Americans
African Americans have been the predominant ethnic group in South Los Angeles, which has emerged as the largest African American
African American community in the western United States
United States since the 1960s. The neighborhoods of South LA with highest concentration of African Americans
African Americans include Crenshaw, Baldwin Hills, Leimert Park, Hyde Park, Gramercy Park, Manchester
Manchester Square and Watts.[103] Apart from South Los Angeles, neighborhoods in the Central region of Los Angeles, as Mid-City and Mid-Wilshire have a moderate concentration of African Americans
African Americans as well. In 1970, the Census Bureau reported the city's population as 17.9% black, 61.1% non- Hispanic
Hispanic white and 17.1% Hispanic.[99] Religion

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels is the mother cathedral for the Los Angeles
Los Angeles archdiocese.

Built in 1956, the Los Angeles
Los Angeles California
California Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the second largest LDS temple in the world.

According to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center, Christianity
Christianity is the most prevalently practiced religion in Los Angeles (65%).[104][105] Perhaps owing to the fact of its founding by Franciscan
Franciscan friars of Roman Catholicism, the Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles
Los Angeles leads the largest archdiocese in the country.[106] Cardinal Roger Mahony
Roger Mahony oversaw construction of the Cathedral
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, which opened in September 2002 in downtown Los Angeles.[107] Construction of the cathedral marked a coming of age of the city's Catholic, heavily Latino community. There are numerous Catholic churches and parishes throughout Los Angeles. In 2011, the once common, but ultimately lapsed, custom of conducting a procession and Mass in honor of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles, in commemoration of the founding of the City of Los Angeles
Los Angeles in 1781, was revived by the Queen of Angels Foundation
Queen of Angels Foundation and its founder Mark Albert, with the support and approbation of the Archdiocese
Archdiocese of Los Angeles
Los Angeles as well as several civic leaders.[108] The recently revived custom is a continuation of the original processions and Masses which commenced on the first anniversary of the founding of Los Angeles
Los Angeles in 1782 and continued for nearly a century thereafter. With 621,000 Jews in the metropolitan area (490,000 in city proper), the region has the second largest population of Jews in the United States.[109] Many of Los Angeles's Jews now live on the Westside and in the San Fernando Valley, though Boyle Heights
Boyle Heights and Northwest Los Angeles once had large Jewish populations. Many varieties of Judaism are represented in the area, including Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, and Reconstructionist. The Breed Street Shul
Breed Street Shul in East Los Angeles, built in 1923, was the largest synagogue west of Chicago
Chicago in its early decades.[110] (It is no longer a sacred space and is being converted to a museum and community center.)[111] The Kabbalah Centre
Kabbalah Centre also has a presence in the city.[112] The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel was founded in Los Angeles by Aimee Semple McPherson
Aimee Semple McPherson in 1923 and remains headquartered there to this day. For many years, the church convened at Angelus Temple, which, when built, was one of the largest churches in the country.[113] Los Angeles
Los Angeles has had a rich and influential Protestant tradition. The first Protestant service in Los Angeles
Los Angeles was a Methodist meeting held in a private home in 1850 and the oldest Protestant church still operating, First Congregational Church, was founded in 1867.[114] In the early 1900s the Bible Institute Of Los Angeles
Bible Institute Of Los Angeles published the founding documents of the Christian Fundamentalist
Christian Fundamentalist movement and the Azusa Street Revival
Azusa Street Revival launched Pentecostalism.[114] The Metropolitan Community Church also had its origins in the Los Angeles
Los Angeles area.[115] Important churches in the city include First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, Bel Air Presbyterian Church, First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles, West Angeles Church of God in Christ, Second Baptist Church, Crenshaw Christian Center, McCarty Memorial Christian Church, and First Congregational Church. The Los Angeles
Los Angeles California
California Temple, the second largest temple operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is on Santa Monica Boulevard in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. Dedicated in 1956, it was the first LDS temple built in California
California and it was the largest in the world when completed.[116] The Hollywood
Hollywood region of Los Angeles
Los Angeles also has several significant headquarters, churches, and the Celebrity Center
Celebrity Center of Scientology.[citation needed] Because of Los Angeles's large multi-ethnic population, a wide variety of faiths are practiced, including Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Zoroastrianism, Sikhism, Bahá'í, various Eastern Orthodox Churches, Sufism
Sufism and others. Immigrants from Asia for example, have formed a number of significant Buddhist congregations making the city home to the greatest variety of Buddhists in the world. The first Buddhist joss house was founded in the city in 1875.[117] Atheism
Atheism and other secular beliefs are also common, as the city is the largest in the Western U.S. Unchurched Belt. Economy

Employment by industry in Los Angeles
Los Angeles County (2015)

Financial companies such as US Bancorp, Ernst & Young, Aon, Bank of America, PwC, and Deloitte
Deloitte have offices in the Downtown Financial District.

Further information: Los Angeles County, California
Los Angeles County, California § Economy See also: Los Angeles
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce The economy of Los Angeles
Los Angeles is driven by international trade, entertainment (television, motion pictures, video games, music recording, and production), aerospace, technology, petroleum, fashion, apparel, and tourism.[citation needed] Other significant industries include finance, telecommunications, law, healthcare, and transportation. In the 2017 Global Financial Centres Index, Los Angeles was ranked as having the 19th most competitive financial center in the world, and sixth most competitive in United States (after New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, and Washington, D.C.).[118] Two of the six major film studios, Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox, are located within the city limits,[119] their locations being part of the so-called "Thirty-Mile Zone" of entertainment headquarters in Southern California. Los Angeles
Los Angeles is the largest manufacturing center in the western United States.[120] The contiguous ports of Los Angeles
Los Angeles and Long Beach together comprise the fifth-busiest port in the world and the most significant port in the Western Hemisphere
Western Hemisphere and is vital to trade within the Pacific Rim.[120] The Los Angeles–Long Beach metropolitan area has a gross metropolitan product of $866 billion (as of 2015[update]),[121] making it the third-largest economic metropolitan area in the world, after Tokyo
Tokyo and New York.[122] Los Angeles
Los Angeles has been classified an "Alpha world city" according to a 2012 study by a group at Loughborough University.[123] The largest employers in the city as of 2009[update] were, in descending order, the City of Los Angeles, the County of Los Angeles, and University of California, Los Angeles.[124] The University of Southern California
California (USC) is the city's fourth largest employer and the largest private sector employer.[125] Fortune 500 The city was home to six companies in the 2014 Fortune 500.[126]

Top publicly traded companies in Los Angeles
Los Angeles for 2014 (ranked by revenues) with City and U.S. ranks

L.A.

Corporation

US

1

Occidental Petroleum
Occidental Petroleum Corporation

116

2

Health Net, Inc.

254

3

Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co.

299

4

AECOM Technology Corporation

332

5

Oaktree Capital Group, LLC

354

6

CBRE Group, Inc.

363

Source: Fortune 500[127]

Culture

The Dolby Theatre; venue for the Academy Awards

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Main article: Arts and culture of Los Angeles Los Angeles
Los Angeles is often billed as the "Creative Capital of the World", because one in every six of its residents works in a creative industry[128] and there are more artists, writers, filmmakers, actors, dancers and musicians living and working in Los Angeles
Los Angeles than any other city at any time in history.[129] Movies and the performing arts The city's Hollywood
Hollywood neighborhood has become recognized as the center of the motion picture industry. Los Angeles
Los Angeles plays host to the annual Academy Awards
Academy Awards and is the site of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, the oldest film school in the United States.[130] The performing arts play a major role in Los Angeles's cultural identity. According to the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation, "there are more than 1,100 annual theatrical productions and 21 openings every week."[129] The Los Angeles Music Center
Los Angeles Music Center is "one of the three largest performing arts centers in the nation", with more than 1.3 million visitors per year.[131] The Walt Disney Concert Hall, centerpiece of the Music Center, is home to the prestigious Los Angeles Philharmonic. Notable organizations such as Center Theatre Group, the Los Angeles
Los Angeles Master Chorale, and the Los Angeles Opera
Los Angeles Opera are also resident companies of the Music Center. Talent is locally cultivated at premier institutions such as the Colburn School
Colburn School and the USC Thornton School of Music. Museums and galleries See also: Los Angeles
Los Angeles City Museums

The Fox Plaza in Century City, headquarters for 20th Century Fox

There are 841 museums and art galleries in Los Angeles
Los Angeles County.[132] In fact, Los Angeles
Los Angeles has more museums per capita than any other city in the world.[132] Some of the notable museums are the Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (the largest art museum in the Western United States[133]), the Getty Center
Getty Center (part of the larger J. Paul Getty Trust, the world's wealthiest art institution[134]), the Battleship Iowa, and the Museum of Contemporary Art. A significant number of art galleries are located on Gallery Row, and tens of thousands attend the monthly Downtown Art Walk there.[135]

Sports

Dodger Stadium
Dodger Stadium is the home of the Los Angeles
Los Angeles Dodgers.

See also: Sports in Los Angeles
Sports in Los Angeles and History of the National Football League in Los Angeles The city of Los Angeles
Los Angeles and its metropolitan area are the home of eleven top level professional sports teams. These teams include the Los Angeles Dodgers
Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Angels
Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB), the Los Angeles Rams
Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers
Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League
National Football League (NFL), the Los Angeles Lakers
Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association
National Basketball Association (NBA), the Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Ducks
Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League
National Hockey League (NHL), the Los Angeles Galaxy & Los Angeles FC
Los Angeles FC of Major League Soccer
Major League Soccer (MLS), and the Los Angeles Sparks
Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Other notable sports teams include the UCLA Bruins
UCLA Bruins and the USC Trojans in the National Collegiate Athletic Association
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), both of which are Division I teams in the Pac-12 Conference. Los Angeles
Los Angeles is the second-largest city in the United States
United States but hosted no NFL team between 1995 and 2015. At one time, the Los Angeles
Los Angeles area hosted two NFL teams: the Rams and the Raiders. Both left the city in 1995, with the Rams moving to St. Louis, and the Raiders moving back to their original home of Oakland. After 21 seasons in St. Louis, on January 12, 2016, the NFL announced that the Rams would be moving back to Los Angeles
Los Angeles for the 2016 NFL season. A new stadium will be built in Inglewood, California
California for the team by the 2020 season.[136][137][138] Prior to 1995, the Rams played their home games in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum from 1946 to 1979 and the Raiders played their home games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum from 1982 to 1994. The San Diego Chargers announced on January 12, 2017 that they would relocate to Los Angeles
Los Angeles and become the Los Angeles Chargers
Los Angeles Chargers beginning in the 2017 NFL season and play at the StubHub Center
StubHub Center in Carson, California for the next three seasons until the Rams' Inglewood stadium is completed.

Staples Center
Staples Center is a sports arena, home to the Los Angeles
Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Sparks, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Clippers, and Los Angeles
Los Angeles Kings.

Los Angeles
Los Angeles has twice hosted the Summer Olympic Games: in 1932 and in 1984, and will host the games for a third time in 2028.[139] Los Angeles will be the third city after London
London (1908, 1948 and 2012) and Paris
Paris (1900, 1924 and 2024) to host the Olympic Games three times. When the tenth Olympic Games were hosted in 1932, the former 10th Street was renamed Olympic Blvd. Super Bowls I and VII were also held in the city, as well as multiple FIFA World Cup
FIFA World Cup games at the Rose Bowl in 1994, including the final. Los Angeles
Los Angeles also hosted the Deaflympics in 1985[140] and Special
Special Olympics World Summer Games in 2015.[141] Los Angeles
Los Angeles boasts a number of sports venues, including Dodger Stadium, the Los Angeles
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and the Staples Center. The Forum, the StubHub Center, and the Rose Bowl are also located in adjacent cities. Government Main article: Government of Los Angeles See also: Government of Los Angeles
Government of Los Angeles County Los Angeles
Los Angeles is a charter city as opposed to a general law city. The current charter was adopted on June 8, 1999 and has been amended many times since then.[142] The elected government consists of the Los Angeles City Council and the Mayor of Los Angeles
Mayor of Los Angeles which operate under a mayor-council government, as well as the city attorney (not to be confused with the district attorney, a county office) and controller. The current mayor is Eric Garcetti. There are 15 city council districts. The city has many departments and appointed officers, including the Los Angeles Police Department
Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), the Los Angeles
Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners, the Los Angeles Fire Department
Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles
Los Angeles (HACLA), the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT), and the Los Angeles
Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL). The Charter of the City of Los Angeles
Los Angeles ratified by voters in 1999 created a system of advisory neighborhood councils that would represent the diversity of stakeholders, defined as those who live, work or own property in the neighborhood. The neighborhood councils are relatively autonomous and spontaneous in that they identify their own boundaries, establish their own bylaws, and elect their own officers. There are currently about 90 neighborhood councils. Residents of Los Angeles
Los Angeles elect supervisors for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th supervisorial districts. Federal and state representation In the California
California State Assembly, Los Angeles
Los Angeles is split between fourteen districts.[143] In the California
California State Senate, the city is split between eight districts.[144] In the United States
United States House of Representatives, it is split between ten congressional districts.[145] Crime See also: Crime in Los Angeles and List of criminal gangs in Los Angeles

The LAPD on May Day
May Day 2006 in front of the new Caltrans District 7 Headquarters

Los Angeles
Los Angeles experienced a significant decline in crime in the 1990s and late 2000s and reached a 50-year low in 2009 with 314 homicides.[146][147] This is a rate of 7.85 per 100,000 population—a major decrease from 1980 when a homicide rate of 34.2 per 100,000 was reported.[148][149] This included 15 officer-involved shootings. One shooting led to the death of a SWAT team member, Randal Simmons, the first in LAPD's history.[150] Los Angeles
Los Angeles in the year of 2013 totaled 251 murders, a decrease of 16 percent from the previous year. Police speculate that the drop resulted from a number of factors, including young people spending more time online.[151] Crime increased significantly in 2015 from the low in 2013 with the rate of aggravated assault up 76%, rape up 182.7% and murder up 9.2%.[152] The Dragna crime family and the Cohen crime family
Cohen crime family dominated organized crime in the city during the Prohibition era[153] and reached its peak during the 1940s and 1950s with the battle of Sunset Strip as part of the American Mafia, but has gradually declined since then with the rise of various black and Hispanic
Hispanic gangs in the late 1960s and early 1970s.[153] According to the Los Angeles
Los Angeles Police Department, the city is home to 45,000 gang members, organized into 450 gangs.[154] Among them are the Crips
Crips and Bloods, which are both African American
African American street gangs that originated in the South Los Angeles
South Los Angeles region. Latino street gangs such as the Sureños, a Mexican American
Mexican American street gang, and Mara Salvatrucha, which has mainly members of Salvadoran descent, all originated in Los Angeles. This has led to the city being referred to as the "Gang Capital of America".[155] Education Colleges and universities

Second branch of the California
California State Normal School in downtown Los Angeles opened its doors in 1882.

There are three public universities located within the city limits: California
California State University, Los Angeles
Los Angeles (CSULA), California
California State University, Northridge (CSUN) and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Private colleges in the city include the American Film Institute Conservatory, Alliant International University, Syracuse University ( Los Angeles
Los Angeles Campus), American Academy of Dramatic Arts
American Academy of Dramatic Arts (Los Angeles Campus), American Jewish University, Abraham Lincoln University, The American Musical and Dramatic Academy – Los Angeles
Los Angeles campus, Antioch University's Los Angeles
Los Angeles campus, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Emperor's College, Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising's Los Angeles
Los Angeles campus (FIDM), Los Angeles
Los Angeles Film School, Loyola Marymount University
Loyola Marymount University (LMU is also the parent university of Loyola Law School located in Los Angeles), Marymount College, Mount St. Mary's College, National University of California, Occidental College ("Oxy"), Otis College of Art and Design
Otis College of Art and Design (Otis), Southern California
California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Southwestern Law School, University of Southern California
California (USC), and Woodbury University. The community college system consists of nine campuses governed by the trustees of the Los Angeles
Los Angeles Community College District: East Los Angeles College (ELAC), Los Angeles City College (LACC), Los Angeles Harbor College, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Mission College, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Pierce College, Los Angeles Valley College
Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC), Los Angeles
Los Angeles Southwest College, Los Angeles Trade-Technical College and West Los Angeles College. There are numerous additional colleges and universities outside the city limits in the Greater Los Angeles
Greater Los Angeles area. Schools and libraries

The Los Angeles
Los Angeles Central Library is in Downtown Los Angeles.

See also: Los Angeles County, California
Los Angeles County, California § Colleges and universities; and List of high schools in Los Angeles
Los Angeles County, California Los Angeles Unified School District
Los Angeles Unified School District serves almost all of the city of Los Angeles, as well as several surrounding communities, with a student population around 800,000.[156] After Proposition 13 was approved in 1978, urban school districts had considerable trouble with funding. LAUSD has become known for its underfunded, overcrowded and poorly maintained campuses, although its 162 Magnet schools help compete with local private schools. Several small sections of Los Angeles
Los Angeles are in the Las Virgenes Unified School District. The Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Office of Education operates the Los Angeles
Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. The Los Angeles Public Library system operates 72 public libraries in the city.[157] Enclaves of unincorporated areas are served by branches of the County of Los Angeles
Los Angeles Public Library, many of which are within walking distance to residents. Media Main article: Media in Los Angeles See also: List of television shows set in Los Angeles and List of films set in Los Angeles The Los Angeles
Los Angeles metro area is the second-largest broadcast designated market area in the U.S. (after New York) with 5,431,140 homes (4.956% of the U.S.), which is served by a wide variety of local AM and FM radio and television stations. Los Angeles
Los Angeles and New York City
New York City are the only two media markets to have seven VHF
VHF allocations assigned to them.[158] As part of the region's aforementioned creative industry, the Big Four major broadcast television networks, ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC, all have production facilities and offices throughout various areas of Los Angeles. All four major broadcast television networks, plus major Spanish-language networks Telemundo
Telemundo and Univision, also own and operate stations that both serve the Los Angeles
Los Angeles market and serve as each network's West Coast flagship station: ABC's KABC-TV
KABC-TV (Channel 7), CBS's KCBS-TV
KCBS-TV (Channel 2), Fox's KTTV-TV (Channel 11), NBC's KNBC-TV (Channel 4), Telemundo's KVEA-TV (Channel 52), and Univision's KMEX-TV (Channel 34). The region also has three PBS stations, as well as KCET, the nation's largest independent public television station. KTBN (Channel 40) is the flagship station of the religious Trinity Broadcasting Network, based out of Santa Ana. A variety of independent television stations, such as KCAL-TV
KCAL-TV (Channel 9) and KTLA-TV (Channel 5), also operate in the area. The major daily English-language newspaper in the area is the Los Angeles Times. La Opinión
La Opinión is the city's major daily Spanish-language paper. The Korea Times is the city's major daily Korean language
Korean language paper while The World Journal
The World Journal is the city and county's major Chinese newspaper. The Los Angeles Sentinel
Los Angeles Sentinel is the city's major African-American
African-American weekly paper, boasting the largest African-American readership in the Western United States. Investor's Business Daily
Investor's Business Daily is distributed from its L.A. corporate offices, which are headquartered in Playa del Rey.

Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times headquarters

There are also a number of smaller regional newspapers, alternative weeklies and magazines, including the Los Angeles
Los Angeles Register, Los Angeles Community News, (which focuses on coverage of the greater Los Angeles area), Los Angeles Daily News (which focuses coverage on the San Fernando Valley), LA Weekly, L.A. Record (which focuses coverage on the music scene in the Greater Los Angeles
Greater Los Angeles Area), Los Angeles Magazine, the Los Angeles
Los Angeles Business Journal, the Los Angeles
Los Angeles Daily Journal (legal industry paper), The Hollywood
Hollywood Reporter, Variety (both entertainment industry papers), and Los Angeles
Los Angeles Downtown News. In addition to the major papers, numerous local periodicals serve immigrant communities in their native languages, including Armenian, English, Korean, Persian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, and Arabic. Many cities adjacent to Los Angeles
Los Angeles also have their own daily newspapers whose coverage and availability overlaps into certain Los Angeles neighborhoods. Examples include The Daily Breeze (serving the South Bay), and The Long Beach Press-Telegram. Los Angeles
Los Angeles arts, culture and nightlife news is also covered by a number of local and national online guides like Time Out Los Angeles, Thrillist, Kristin's List, DailyCandy, LAist, and Flavorpill.[159] Transportation Main article: Transportation in Los Angeles Freeways Main article: Southern California
California freeways

The Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange, connecting the Century Freeway (I-105) and the Harbor Freeway (I-110).

The city and the rest of the Los Angeles metropolitan area
Los Angeles metropolitan area are served by an extensive network of freeways and highways. The Texas Transportation Institute, which publishes an annual Urban Mobility Report, ranked Los Angeles
Los Angeles road traffic as the most congested in the United States
United States in 2005 as measured by annual delay per traveler.[160] The average traveler in Los Angeles
Los Angeles experienced 72 hours of traffic delay per year according to the study. Los Angeles
Los Angeles was followed by San Francisco/Oakland, Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. and Atlanta, (each with 60 hours of delay).[161] Despite the congestion in the city, the mean travel time for commuters in Los Angeles
Los Angeles is shorter than other major cities, including New York City, Philadelphia
Philadelphia and Chicago. Los Angeles's mean travel time for work commutes in 2006 was 29.2 minutes, similar to those of San Francisco
San Francisco and Washington, D.C.[162] Among the major highways that connect LA to the rest of the nation include Interstate 5, which runs south through San Diego
San Diego to Tijuana
Tijuana in Mexico
Mexico and north through Sacramento, Portland, and Seattle
Seattle to the Canada–US border; Interstate 10, the southernmost east–west, coast-to-coast Interstate Highway
Interstate Highway in the United States, going to Jacksonville, Florida; and U.S. Route 101, which heads to the California
California Central Coast, San Francisco, the Redwood Empire, and the Oregon
Oregon and Washington coasts. Transit systems Main article: Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Current Los Angeles
Los Angeles Metro Rail and Metro Transitway map, showing existing lines

The LA County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and other agencies operate an extensive system of bus lines, as well as subway and light rail lines across Los Angeles
Los Angeles County, with a combined monthly ridership (measured in individual boardings) of 38.8 million as of September 2011. The majority of this (30.5 million) is taken up by the city's bus system,[163] the second busiest in the country. The subway and light rail combined average the remaining roughly 8.2 million boardings per month.[163] In 2005, 10.2% of Los Angeles commuters rode some form of public transportation.[164] The city's subway system is the ninth busiest in the United States
United States and its light rail system is the country's second busiest.[165] The rail system includes the Red and Purple subway lines, as well as the Gold, Blue, Expo, and Green light rail lines. In 2016, the Expo Line was extended to the Pacific at Santa Monica. The Metro Orange and Silver lines are bus rapid transit lines with stops and frequency similar to those of light rail. The city is also central to the commuter rail system Metrolink, which links Los Angeles
Los Angeles to all neighboring counties as well as many suburbs.

Union Station in Los Angeles, California

Besides the rail service provided by Metrolink and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Los Angeles
Los Angeles is served by inter-city passenger trains from Amtrak. The main rail station in the city is Union Station just north of Downtown. In addition, the city directly contracts for local and commuter bus service through the Los Angeles
Los Angeles Department of Transportation, or LADOT.

Airports Main article: List of airports in the Los Angeles
Los Angeles area

The Theme Building
Theme Building at Los Angeles
Los Angeles Airport

The main international and domestic airport serving Los Angeles
Los Angeles is Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX), commonly referred to by its airport code, LAX. The sixth busiest commercial airport in the world and the third busiest in the United States, LAX handled over 66 million passengers and close to 2 million tons of cargo in 2013. Other major nearby commercial airports include:

(IATA: ONT, ICAO: KONT) LA/Ontario International Airport, owned by the city of Los Angeles; serves the Inland Empire. (IATA: BUR, ICAO: KBUR) Hollywood
Hollywood Burbank Airport, formerly known as Bob Hope Airport and Burbank Airport; the closest airport to Downtown Los Angeles; serves the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys. (IATA: LGB, ICAO: KLGB) Long Beach Airport, serves the Long Beach/Harbor area. (IATA: SNA, ICAO: KSNA) John Wayne Airport
John Wayne Airport of Orange County.

One of the world's busiest general-aviation airports is also located in Los Angeles, Van Nuys Airport
Van Nuys Airport (IATA: VNY, ICAO: KVNY).[166] Seaports

The Vincent Thomas Bridge
Vincent Thomas Bridge is at Terminal Island.

The Port of Los Angeles
Port of Los Angeles is located in San Pedro Bay in the San Pedro neighborhood, approximately 20 miles (32 km) south of Downtown. Also called Los Angeles
Los Angeles Harbor and WORLDPORT LA, the port complex occupies 7,500 acres (30 km2) of land and water along 43 miles (69 km) of waterfront. It adjoins the separate Port of Long Beach. The sea ports of the Port of Los Angeles
Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach together make up the Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor.[167][168] Together, both ports are the fifth busiest container port in the world, with a trade volume of over 14.2 million TEU's in 2008.[169] Singly, the Port of Los Angeles
Port of Los Angeles is the busiest container ports in the United States
United States and the largest cruise ship center on the West Coast of the United States – The Port of Los Angeles's World Cruise Center served about 590,000 passengers in 2014.[170] There are also smaller, non-industrial harbors along Los Angeles's coastline. The port includes four bridges: the Vincent Thomas Bridge, Henry Ford Bridge, Gerald Desmond Bridge, and Commodore Schuyler F. Heim Bridge. Passenger ferry service from San Pedro to the city of Avalon on Santa Catalina Island is provided by Catalina Express. Notable people Main article: List of people from Los Angeles As home to Hollywood
Hollywood and its entertainment industry, numerous singers, actors and other entertainers live in various districts of Los Angeles. Twin towns and sister cities

This article contains a list of miscellaneous information. Please relocate any relevant information into other sections or articles. (July 2017)

A sign near City Hall points to the sister cities of Los Angeles.

Los Angeles
Los Angeles has 25 sister cities,[171] listed chronologically by year joined:

Eilat, Israel
Israel (1959) Nagoya, Japan
Japan (1959) Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Brazil (1962) Bordeaux, France
France (1964)[172][173] Berlin, Germany
Germany (1967)[174] Lusaka, Zambia (1968) Mexico
Mexico City, Mexico
Mexico (1969) Auckland, New Zealand (1971) Busan, South Korea
South Korea (1971) Mumbai, India
India (1972) Tehran, Iran
Iran (1972) Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
China (1979) Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
China (1981)[175] Athens, Greece
Greece (1984) Saint Petersburg, Russia
Russia (1984) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Canada (1986)[176] Giza, Egypt
Egypt (1989) Jakarta, Indonesia
Indonesia (1990) Kaunas, Lithuania (1991) Makati, Philippines
Philippines (1992) Split, Croatia
Split, Croatia (1993)[177] San Salvador, El Salvador (2005) Beirut, Lebanon (2006) Ischia, Campania, Italy
Italy (2006) Yerevan, Armenia (2007)[178]

In addition, Los Angeles
Los Angeles has the following "friendship cities":[179]

London, United Kingdom Łódź, Poland Manchester, United Kingdom Tel Aviv, Israel[180]

See also

Eastside Los Angeles Largest cities in Southern California Largest cities in the Americas List of cities and towns in California List of hotels in Los Angeles List of largest California
California cities by population List of largest houses in the Los Angeles
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area List of museums in Los Angeles List of museums in Los Angeles
List of museums in Los Angeles County, California List of music venues in Los Angeles List of people from Los Angeles List of tallest buildings in Los Angeles Los Angeles
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Further reading See also: Bibliography of Los Angeles General

Carey McWilliams (2009). Southern California: An Island on the Land (9th ed.). Peregrine Smith. ISBN 978-0-87905-007-8.  Richard White (1991). It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own: A New History of the American West. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-2567-1.  David Rieff (1992). Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World. Touchstone. ISBN 978-0-671-79210-7.  Peter Theroux (1994). Translating LA: A Tour of the Rainbow City. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-31394-9.  Paul Glover (1995). Los Angeles: A History of the Future. Greenplanners. ISBN 978-0-9622911-0-4.  Leonard Pitt & Dale Pitt (2000). Los Angeles
Los Angeles A to Z: An Encyclopedia of the City and County. Berkeley: University of California
California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-20530-7.  Kevin Starr
Kevin Starr and David Ulin (2009). Jim Heimann, ed. Los Angeles: Portrait of a City. Taschen
Taschen America. ISBN 978-3-8365-0291-7. 

Architecture and urban theory

Reyner Banham
Reyner Banham (2009). Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (2nd ed.). Berkeley: University of California
California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-26015-3.  Mike Davis (2006). City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. Verso. ISBN 978-1-84467-568-5.  Robert M. Fogelson (1993). The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles 1850–1930. Berkeley: University of California
California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-08230-4.  Norman M. Klein (1997). The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles
Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory. Verso. ISBN 978-1-84467-242-4.  Sam Hall Kaplan (2000). L.A. Lost & Found: An Architectural History of Los Angeles. Hennessey and Ingalls. ISBN 978-0-940512-23-8.  Wim de Wit and Christopher James Alexander (2013). Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940–1990. Getty Publications. ISBN 978-1-60606-128-2. 

Race relations

Acuña, Rodolfo (1996). Anything but Mexican: Chicanos in contemporary Los Angeles. Verso. ISBN 978-1-85984-031-3. Retrieved September 30, 2011.  George, Lynell (1992). No Crystal Stair: African Americans
African Americans in the City of Angels. Verso. ISBN 978-0-86091-389-4.  Sides, Josh (2006). L.A. City Limits: African American
African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present. Berkeley: University of California
California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24830-4.  Eduardo Obregón Pagán (2006). Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A. The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-5494-5.  R. J. Smith (2007). The Great Black Way: L.A. in the 1940s and the Last African American
African American Renaissance. PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1-58648-521-4. 

LGBT

Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons (2006). Gay L. A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, And Lipstick Lesbians. Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-02288-X.  Hurewitz, Daniel (2007). Bohemian Los Angeles: and the Making of Modern Politics. Berkeley: University of California
California Press. ISBN 0-520-24925-9. 

Environment

Marc Reisner (1986). Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-017824-1.  Chip Jacobs and William Kelly (2008). Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles. Outlook Hardcover. ISBN 1-58567-860-0. 

Art and literature

David L. Ulin, ed. (2002). Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology. Library of America. ISBN 978-1-931082-27-3.  Whiting, Cécile (2008). Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s. Berkeley: University of California
California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-25634-7. 

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