The Protest Of The Sunset Strip

The city of Los Angeles is not a unified city. Los Angeles consists of too many large sub cities or communities to speak with one voice. There are many sub cities in LA such as the Westside, Hollywood, the Valley, Downtown, and of course, South Central. To make things more difficult, many of these sub cities themselves are not unified. Due to their size, all

to make a “problem” disappear? They will be the human cost of gentrification. Unless the city in partnership with the business community and its Downtown Eastside residents can attain a solution together, it is difficult to fathom a future that is just, regardless of its economic promise.

* Charlene Simpson is a member of the County Council’s Land Use Committee but did not show up during the meeting when the amendment has been approved. She is historically known as a fervent ‘’no-growther’’ and the expansion of the Urban Area could be seen as a threat to her ideals, since she sees development and new jobs as evil. Despite she didn’t show any preference before, she will probably vote against the amendments.

Provided the unofficial definition, majority of the United States could easily guess the word: “The slums outside of Los Angeles. This area is very poor and revolves around gang violence, sex and drug dealing.” That’s correct, you guessed it right! It’s the infamous Compton. The city that everyone has heard in the news or in a song at one point or another. This definition was taken from Urban Dictionary, a site that allows anyone to define specific words and terms. It is easy to see that Compton is often related with drugs, crime and gangs, but the general public fails to realize the truth behind the suburb. The smaller Los Angeles district is filled with hard working people that have been disenfranchised and defined as numbers and statistics.

The neighborhood I have chosen is Watts, California. Before it was known as Watts it was a part of Rancho La Tajuata specializing in livestock grazing and beef production. In the 1870's there was a population boom of White Americans in Southern California. La Tajuata was divided and sold into smaller farms and homes. By the 1900's the development of the railroads brought good things. The town became a city and built it's first station known as Watts Station. In 1926 the city annexed itself to Los Angeles. The railroads brought Mexican and Mexican American workers known as "traqueros" into the community.

Years ago, there was once a small town called Chaves Ravine within Los Angeles, California and this town was a poor rural community that was always full of life. Two hundred families, mostly Chicano families, were living here quite peacefully until the Housing Act of 1949 was passed. The Federal Housing Act of 1949 granted money to cities from the federal government to build public housing projects for the low income. Los Angeles was one of the first cities to receive the funds for project. Unfortunately, Chavez Ravine was one of the sites chosen for the housing project, so, to prepare for the construction work of the low-income apartments, the Housing Authority of Los Angeles had to convince the people of the ravine to leave, or forcibly

In Dolan v. City of Tigard, 512 U.S. 374 (1994), building a parking lot will increase the quantity and rate of storm-water flow from the property, thus keeping the floodplain free from the development would likely confine the pressures on Fanno Creek created by the new development. However, this was not enough for the city; the city wanted the land for itself. According to Justice Rhenquist, “the city must make some effort to quantify its findings in *396 support of the dedication it asks for” (Dolan v. City of Tigard 1994, 5). San Jose’s law does not solve the issue of increasing low-income housing, but instead harms entrepreneurs. The City of San Jose has made no effort to meet its burden to show that developers of new homes are somehow responsible for the astronomical prices of housing in the city. The law is an impediment to growth, an interference with the free market and an exceedingly expensive cost-per-unit way of integrating lower incomes into high land-value

On September 9, 2014 I attended the Glendale City Council meeting which was held at the Council Chamber which is located on the 2nd floor of the Glendale City Hall, Room 200, 613 East Broadway, Glendale, California. The meeting commenced at 6 p.m. and lasted for approximately 1 hour and 40 minutes. Several policy proposals were made and discussed in this particular meeting. This paper is aimed at discussing the various policy proposals made and debated at this meeting with a view to establishing whether they are acceptable or unacceptable to the Glendale electorate. It is, however, essential to provide a brief background of the City of Glendale before embarking on a discussion of policy proposals.

Though Hines draws out the section about the architects’ plans, the descriptions of Chavez Ravine’s architectural redesign demonstrate the architects’ hope to keep the community in mind. Hines emphasizes this point because of his implied sympathy for the community. He includes a quote from

Protests riots in the United States has proven to an issue for both the country’s financial strength and the unity of the nation. With the presence of social injustices, combined with the increased impact of social media propaganda, protests riots are beginning to reach an all time high. Protest riots destroy individual communities and businesses, jeopardizes the safety of others and taints the protest’s cause by resorting to civil disobedience. Action must be done in order to prevent these random acts of violence from continuing after every social hot topic. The goal is not to prevent citizens from protesting; in fact, this should be encouraged. The goal is to change the way the protests are handled from both the citizens and authority perspectives, in order to prevent these protests from escalating into something dangerous.

They stated that the described as unbelievably hideous, grotesque, and monstrous and that needs to be stopped or reconsidered. However, the Los Angeles Times had taken a different approach and their opinion about the structure for Steel Cloud. The Los Angeles Times expressed that they actually liked the structure and believed it was pretty good idea to build a monument with this particular design that has the chance to feature libraries, theaters, cinemas, parks, and plazas. However, agreed with others with the location they had decided to place the monument at. They thought it would be a “miserable four-block stretch atop of the freeway” meaning that they shouldn’t put an original designed structure on top of the Hollywood Freeway that will have a four-block stretch. Plus with it being above a freeway that is known for being crowed and busy all day long. This is looked to be a big problem in the city of Los Angeles. According to Sam Hall Kaplan Los Angeles Times critic that Steel Cloud is going to “overburden the city transportation system and instead Los Angeles should spend the 33 million dollars to clean up the beaches and saying that is something everyone can use. From this it clearly does show how there are many issues with where they wanted to put Steel Cloud. With the agreement of The Los Angeles Times, the Media, and many residents of Los Angeles they all have loudly shared their opinions and thought

While many residents are in support of the formation of the park, there are many people on the other side. Just ask Bill Theriault. He is worried that if Weston puts money to this dog park it will take money away for many

Similar to the fight with Las Vegas developers, The Friends of Gold Butte are pushing to protect more public land in an attempt to preserve Gold Butte's scientific, historic, ecologic, and cultural background. The Friends of Gold Butte's main goal is to designate large portions of Gold Butte's desert into wilderness areas. These areas would be strictly managed and protected by the Federal Government in an attempt to preserve natural resources threatened by humanity's giant footprint. Congress would determine how much money would be spent to manage the wilderness area and limit access by the public. Surprisingly, the Friends of Gold Butte are not up against corporate greed or any other large force. But, they have made it appear there is no

Los Angeles was the first product off the assembly line of American urban planning. Turned on in the late 19th century, the city-making machine was fueled by an immense immigration of people who sought to create a new type of city out of the previously quaint pueblo. They also strove to craft the first major city developed primarily by Americans and outside of European archetypes. As a result, Los Angles is not only incredibly diverse, but also nearly impossible to define. Since it is a product of the American machine, understanding the community of Los Angeles becomes vital to understanding the United States. But to fully comprehend the present Los Angeles, one must look at the process that created it. Specifically, Los Angeles was

This space could do so much for the community, instead of having a block of houses that benefit no one. Here is a little history of the area of the houses. I was unable to find physical proof or any source to back this statement up but, according to Mrs. Zubkewych, her 102 year old neighbor that passed away some years ago named Ms. Grace Irwin was a historian for the Bloor-West Village. Ms. Irwin wrote a book about the Bloor-West Village that can be found in the archives section of the Annette Public Library. According to Mrs. Zubkewych Ms. Irwin told her that the block of houses at 8-20 Oakmount road, 1834-1844 Bloor street west, 3-17 Pacific avenue were built over 100 years ago, she said before they were houses the whole block used to be owned be a doctor who made it into farm land. So therefore we know the soil is non-toxic. The reason the houses were recently torn down is because the owner was trying to get the permits to build but was unable to so he sold the land to a development company. This ties into science because we now know that the soil is not toxic or acidic (since plants can’t