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• Agoura HillsAgoura Hills is run by a five-member City Council elected by residents, which appoints a City Manager to oversee staff and contract services.
• AlhambraThe land that became Alhambra was bought by developer Benjamin Davis Wilson from his ward, Victoria Reid.
• ArcadiaArcadia's Anoakia estate was torn down in 2000 for 31 luxury home sites, leaving its gatehouse at Foothill and Baldwin and its perimeter walls.
• Beverly GroveBeverly Grove was left out of the first draft of Mapping L.A., which showed the area as part of the Fairfax District.
• BeverlywoodAbout 70 percent of Beverlywood's housing is owner-occupied, with renters in the other 30 percent.
• BradburyBradbury shares the 91008 ZIP code, a post office and Duarte Unified schools with Duarte, and relies on the Los Angeles County Fire Department station there.
• BurbankBurbank runs its own electric lines, which in 1937 carried the city's first power from Hoover Dam.
• Canoga ParkAerospace and defense plants in Canoga Park that cleaned with trichloroethylene and tetrachloroethene left polluted groundwater under their sites and across the neighborhood.
• CarthayCarthay lies between Wilshire and Pico boulevards and between Fairfax Avenue and La Cienega Boulevard, with Beverly Hills beyond its northwest corner.
• Century CityCentury City's new owners conceived it as "a city within a city," and Minoru Yamasaki designed its Century Plaza Hotel in 1964.
• ChatsworthChatsworth takes its name from Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, England, and the name was first recorded in 1888.
• Cheviot HillsCheviot Hills was first developed by Sanford Adler, owner of the Flamingo in Las Vegas, and owners hold close to two-thirds of its housing today.
• Culver CityCulver City's buildings reflect its early film studios and, more recently, architectural experiments such as Eric Owen Moss's projects in the Hayden Tract.
• Del ReyThe Ballona Creek Bike Path runs the whole length of Del Rey, passing Milton Street Park, a pocket park beside the creek.
• Echo ParkEcho Park Lake was closed for renovations on March 25, 2021, when the homeless encampment around it was cleared.
• El SegundoThe beachfront beside El Segundo's refinery was once lined with industrial wharves for oil tankers and heavily polluted by sewage and stormwater runoff.
• EncinoThe Encino Oak Tree, a California live oak that had stood for more than a thousand years, died on February 7, 1998, after an El Niño storm brought it down.
• FairfaxRenters hold about 71.5 percent of the housing in the Fairfax area, which includes the Mission Revival El Greco Apartments of 1929.
• GlendaleGlendale's city hall was built under a 1910 contract won by the architecture firm Anderson and Murdock and was completed in 1912.
• Granada HillsMission Point, called Mission Peak by many residents, is the highest point in Granada Hills, with a view over most of the San Fernando Valley.
• Hermosa BeachIn 1926 the Santa Fe built a modern stucco depot in Hermosa Beach and put Western Union telegraph service inside it.
• Hidden HillsHidden Hills is a gated residential community covering about 1.69 square miles, all of it land.
• HollywoodDaeida Wilcox, who gave land to help develop Hollywood, borrowed the name from an Illinois estate owned by an acquaintance.
• Hollywood / Central LAAs drawn by Mapping L.A., Central Los Angeles had 836,638 residents in 2000 across 57.87 square miles, a count that includes the empty acres of Griffith and Elysian parks.
• Hollywood HillsThe Hollywood Hills neighborhood takes in hillside enclaves such as Beachwood Canyon, Outpost Estates, Whitley Heights and the Bird Streets.
• Hollywood Hills WestLaurel Canyon Boulevard cuts through Hollywood Hills West, which is bordered by Outpost Drive on the east and, in part, by the West Hollywood city limits on the south.
• KoreatownKoreatown, one of the densest neighborhoods in the United States, is about 93 percent renter-occupied, with high-rises along Wilshire between Western and Vermont.
• La Cañada FlintridgeSummers in La Cañada Flintridge generally run hotter and winters cooler than in coastal Los Angeles, and its upper elevations may see traces of snow in a winter storm.
• Lake BalboaThe Los Angeles City Council renamed a large part of Van Nuys as Lake Balboa on November 2, 2007.
• Larchmont VillageRenters hold about 72.9 percent of the housing around Larchmont Village, and owners the other 27.1 percent.
• Laurel CanyonLaurel Canyon grew from an early twentieth-century vacation site on the slope of Lookout Mountain, and its main road links Ventura Boulevard with Hollywood Boulevard.
• Los FelizThe Los Feliz Hills hold multimillion-dollar homes, and an adobe built in the 1830s by the Feliz heirs still stands on Crystal Springs Drive in Griffith Park.
• Malibu / Santa Monica MountainsOutside Sandstone Peak and the Boney Mountains the Santa Monica Mountains rise only moderately, and for all their rugged ground they carry a good deal of development.
• Mar VistaRising property values across western Los Angeles mean older Mar Vista houses are now regularly marketed as tear-downs.
• Marina del ReyWith construction nearly finished, the Marina del Rey harbor was put in danger by a winter storm in 1962–1963.
• Mid-WilshireMid-Wilshire households averaged 2.1 people at the 2000 census, a low figure for Los Angeles.
• Miracle MileWhen the Miracle Mile was laid out, merchants had to provide parking lots, and facades along Wilshire were engineered to be seen best through a windshield.
• MonroviaMonrovia's 35-acre airfield closed in 1953, after rising land values led to its sale for redevelopment.
• Mount OlympusOne architectural history of California likened Mount Olympus to Las Vegas casinos, with slightly smaller lots than Trousdale Estates.
• Nichols CanyonNichols Canyon Road, heading north from Hollywood Boulevard, was completed to Woodrow Wilson Drive in 1925.
• North HollywoodSince 2000 North Hollywood has changed a great deal, driven by the 743-acre North Hollywood Development District and the NoHo Commons projects.
• NorthridgeNorthridge grew quickly after World War II, when farm lots were cut into tracts of single-family homes for veterans and their families.
• PalmsPalms dates its founding to a tract map of December 26, 1886, and today it is mostly apartment buildings, with single-family homes in its northwest corner.
• Pico-RobertsonPico-Robertson has more than twenty synagogues, and its Orthodox community has grown into the largest Jewish denomination in the area.
• Playa del ReyRock jetties built against beach erosion largely ended the surf that made Playa del Rey a known Los Angeles surf spot in the 1950s and early 1960s.
• Playa VistaA study of the Playa Vista site found no gas seeping from the nearby Southern California Gas storage field.
• Porter RanchPorter Ranch residents fought a late-1980s plan for an Aliso Canyon Bridge that would have joined Sesnon Boulevard across the canyon, and it was never built.
• Rancho Palos VerdesIn July 2024 SoCalGas shut off service to 135 Rancho Palos Verdes homes because of how severe the land movement had become.
• Rancho ParkAway from busy Pico Boulevard and the Westside Pavilion, Rancho Park has a notably quiet, suburban feel.
• Redondo BeachRedondo Beach was originally part of the 1784 Rancho San Pedro land grant, in the area that later became South Redondo.
• ResedaReseda was still mostly farmland in 1930, with 1,805 residents, before it grew into a postwar suburb.
• Rolling HillsWinters in Rolling Hills run colder than in the surrounding areas, with highs from the high 50s to the low 60s.
• Rolling Hills EstatesThe 1960 census was the first to list Rolling Hills Estates as a city, within the Palos Verdes census county division.
• San Fernando ValleyWartime production and the postwar boom that followed made the San Fernando Valley's population five times larger between 1945 and 1960.
• San GabrielA stretch of Chinese shops in San Gabriel, topped with Spanish-style tile roofs, was nicknamed "the great mall of China" by the Los Angeles Times.
• San Gabriel ValleyMany San Gabriel Valley cities hire the Los Angeles County Fire Department or Sheriff's Department for public safety instead of running their own.
• SawtelleThe City of Sawtelle stayed independent for fewer than 30 years, and the California Supreme Court threw out one attempt by Los Angeles to annex it in September 1921.
• Sherman OaksThrough Sherman Oaks the Los Angeles River runs mostly in a concrete flood-control channel, though nearby parts of the Sepulveda Basin keep more natural features.
• Sierra MadreSierra Madre kept the last volunteer fire department in greater Los Angeles until it switched to a paid department in 2017.
• Silver LakeSilver Lake has its own residential historic district, and renters occupy about 64 percent of the neighborhood's housing.
• South BayMost people in Wilmington and San Pedro, the South Bay's harbor communities, have traditionally worked for the port in some capacity.
• South PasadenaIn the mid-1970s South Pasadena closed several streets that led into Los Angeles and built a 2-foot wall across Via del Rey.
• Sunset StripBy 1780 the route that became the Sunset Strip was the main road linking El Pueblo de Los Angeles with the ranches to its west.
• TarzanaTarzana stands on the former ranch of Tarzan author Edgar Rice Burroughs, and its inland setting brings wider swings between day and night temperatures than the coast sees.
• Temple CityTemple City's founder, Walter P. Temple, set out to build a community where average people could afford to live and own their homes.
• Toluca LakeToluca Lake was once fed by artesian springs, and since well pumping and river channelization lowered the water table, community wells at its edges keep it filled.
• TopangaTopanga has no hotels, motels or gas stations, and no chain or big-box stores.
• TorranceThe Pacific Electric Red Car line once tied downtown Los Angeles to the newly built downtown of Torrance.
• Valley GlenThe first proposal for a Valley Glen neighborhood would have covered about 1,200 homes.
• Valley VillageIn 1985 some three hundred Valley Village homeowners began a campaign against what they called "stucco mountains," the large apartment and office buildings rising nearby.
• Van NuysRenters occupy about 74 percent of Van Nuys housing, and its 1935 post office is a Spanish Colonial Revival design.
• VeniceIn its resort years, Venice's biggest attraction was its gently sloping beach, about a mile long.
• West HillsWest Hills began with a 1987 petition by residents of a three-square-mile area of western Canoga Park who wanted a neighborhood of their own.
• West HollywoodWest Hollywood is built in a dense, compact form, with small lots, mixed land uses and a walkable street grid.
• WestchesterMany of Westchester's postwar ranch houses have been remodeled or rebuilt as larger two-story homes.
• Westlake VillageThe Chumash moved into the Westlake Village area about 3,000 years ago, hunting rabbits and other game and gathering grains and acorns.
• WestsideWhen the Los Angeles Times asked readers to map the Westside, no single definition came close to a majority.
• WestwoodThe choice of the Westwood hills for a new UCLA campus was announced on March 21, 1925.
• Windsor SquareBy 1989 crime had spread through the area, and the Windsor Square Property Owners Association asked that the neighboring park be fenced, gated and locked at sunset.
• Woodland HillsAround 1939 the Woodland Hills area was described as a small business district on Ventura Boulevard at Topanga Canyon Junction.