Los Angeles

Mapping Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Times has updated its map of 113 Los Angeles neighbourhoods, taking into account reader feedback as to what neighbourhoods comprise what areas. It’s a project that sounds a lot like what the Toronto Star is doing with Toronto neighbourhoods (but I don’t know which one came first)….   Read more →
Posted on Monday, June 15, 2009 at 7:17 PM
Categories: Los Angeles
The Geography of Buzz
The Geography of Buzz, a project of Columbia University’s Spatial Information Design Lab, “set out to analyze the unique spatial and social dynamics that are created by the arts and entertainment industries in New York City and Los Angeles.” In layman’s terms, they were trying to map the intangible…   Read more →
Posted on Monday, April 20, 2009 at 7:04 PM
Categories: Geotagging, Los Angeles, Miscellany, New York
L.A. Unfolded
L.A. Unfolded: Maps from the Los Angeles Public Library opened today at Los Angeles’s Central Library; it runs until January 22. “The exhibition focuses on Los Angeles and California and features topographic surveys, tourist guides, real estate maps, pictorials, illustrations and more. Highlights include a 1791 Spanish explorers’ California coast…   Read more →
Posted on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 9:37 PM
Categories: Exhibitions, Los Angeles
Street View: City Updates and Its 1907 Equivalent
Four more cities in Google Maps Street View: Houston, Orlando, Los Angeles and San Diego. Cute: Google Maps Street View Circa 1907 — or, rather, a sample of Rand McNally’s photo auto-maps, which apparently predated road maps….   Read more →
Posted on Sunday, August 19, 2007 at 5:31 PM
Categories: Cities, Houston, Los Angeles, Online Maps, Roads
Imaginary Transit Maps of Los Angeles
Numan Parada’s map of an extensive, and imaginary, rapid transit network for Los Angeles is one of several on the web site of the Transit Coalition, a public transit advocacy group. The maps envision a Los Angeles with a rapid transit network the equal of New York or a…   Read more →
Posted on Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 10:15 AM
Categories: Los Angeles, Mass Transit
L.A. Homeless Map
The Downtown Homeless Map tracks the number of homeless people in downtown Los Angeles; yesterday it received a revamp: Today we’ve put online a new version of the maps, using a radically different methodology for showing the data. Instead of the dots of the old maps, this version takes…   Read more →
Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 at 12:35 PM
Categories: Los Angeles
Los Angeles Mapped; Jo Mora
Boing Boing links to Los Angeles Mapped, the online version of an exhibition of historical maps of Los Angeles on display through January 2007 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The maps on display are diverse in both subject matter and style: from a railroad system map to a…   Read more →
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Posted on Monday, August 7, 2006 at 7:43 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Art, Exhibitions, Los Angeles
WPA Survey Maps for Los Angeles
Also from the USC Digital Archive, WPA land-use survey maps for the City of Los Angeles, 1933-1939: The Works Progress Administration (WPA) conducted a land use survey from December 18, 1933 to May 8, 1939 for the city of Los Angeles, Department of City Planning. It covered approximately 460 square…   Read more →
Posted on Tuesday, September 6, 2005 at 8:34 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Los Angeles

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