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15 sie 2012 · Map showing proposed freeway routes through Los Angeles County. From the Automobile Club of Southern California's Traffic Survey, 1937. Courtesy of the Metro Transportation Library and Archive.
2 cze 2022 · In this StoryMap, we explore the origins of the Southern California freeway system and how the pursuit of the mythical California Dream influenced the rise of automobile culture and the proliferation of freeways around the state. We then explore the stories of racism, displacement, and slow violence and how freeways continue to affect local ...
Southern California freeways. A vast network of interconnected freeways in the megaregion of Southern California serves a population of over 23 million people. The Master Plan of Metropolitan Los Angeles Freeways was adopted by the Regional Planning Commission in 1947 and construction began in the early 1950s. [1]
Photograph of a map showing freeways in Los Angeles and areas marked in downtown and Hollywood, ca.1960. The simple, black and white map is labeled with street names, numbers and letters. A compass is printed in the top right corner.
29 lis 2023 · We look at key moments in the history of the 10, including an early highway path that influenced the safety of freeways today.
7 maj 2013 · The flamboyant grandeur of Los Angeles' freeways makes an especially incongruous background for our withered aspirations. If we treat the car as conveyance, just as we treat clothes as covering, film and literature as distraction, food as fuel, and drink as opiate, we've already lost.
7 lut 2019 · From avocados to citrus to vineyards, several massive California agricultural industries first put down roots in Los Angeles County, helping to push the state into prominence as an epicenter for farming.
