Water Politics and the San Fernando Valley: The Role of Water Rights in the 1915 Annexation and 1996-2002 Secession Campaigns

2010 ◽  
Vol 92 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-116
Author(s):  
Jordan Scavo
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Water Rights ◽  
Water Politics ◽  
Municipal Water ◽  
San Fernando ◽  
San Fernando Valley ◽  
The City

Municipal water rights played the central role in the 1913-1915 campaign to annex San Fernando Valley communities to the city of Los Angeles. Jordan Scavo explores why the water issue was downplayed by both sides in the 1996-2002 Valley secession campaign. He finds that the water rights debates are a measure of the extent to which the Valley and the city have become bound to each other.

scholarly journals Damage to freeway structures in the San Fernando earthquake

1971 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-376
Author(s):  
J. H. Wood ◽  
P. C. Jennings
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Prestressed Concrete ◽  
Central Area ◽  
Los Angeles Basin ◽  
Box Girder ◽  
City Street ◽  
Bridge Structures ◽  
San Fernando ◽  
Earth Retaining Structures ◽  
The City

The extensive freeway system of the Los Angeles basin utilizes a very large number of modern bridge structures to distribute traffic at freeway interchanges and to carry the freeways over and under the city street systems. Most of the bridges are of prestressed concrete or reinforced concrete design and commonly box girder construction is used although some arch and girder type bridges are employed. In general bridges are the major structures on 
the freeway system and high earth retaining structures and tunnels are not common. Retaining walls are used on some of the older sections in the central area of Los Angeles City.

Seismology

1995 ◽  
Vol 11 (2_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Seismic Hazard ◽  
Focal Depth ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Northridge Earthquake ◽  
Los Angeles Basin ◽  
San Fernando ◽  
Northern Edge ◽  
San Fernando Valley ◽  
The Moment

The Northridge earthquake occurred on January 17, 1994, at 4:31 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. The hypocenter was about 32 km west-northwest of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley at a relatively deep focal depth of 19 km. The moment magnitude for the earthquake is Mw6.7. The earthquake occurred on a south-southwest dipping thrust ramp beneath the San Fernando Valley and, thus, reemphasized the seismic hazard of concealed faults in the greater Los Angeles region. The Northridge earthquake also indicates a continuing high rate of seismicity along the northern edge of the Los Angeles basin.

scholarly journals Displaying and Celebrating the "Other": A Study of the Mission, Scope, and Roles of Ethnic Museums in Los Angeles

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 49-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris ◽  
Carl Grodach
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ethnic Culture ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
American Cities ◽  
The City

In the last thirty years, ethnic museums have mushroomed in American cities. Although this is certainly a national phenomenon, it has been particularly evident in Los Angeles. In this paper we examine the genesis and evolution of these emerging institutions. We survey the mission, scope, and role of ethnic museums in Los Angeles, and we contrast them with the stated mission and scope of "mainstream" museums in the city. We further present case studies of three Los Angeles ethnic museums. The museums vary considerably in the ways they perceive their role in the community, the city, and the nation and in the preservation and display of ethnic culture. At their best, ethnic museums serve to make new art and histories more accessible and visible and provide a forum in which to debate contemporary issues of politics and identity. The paper highlights some of the tensions faced by ethnic museums as they seek to define their audience and role(s) in multi-ethnic, twenty-first century Los Angeles.

Mapping and making gangland: A legacy of redlining and enjoining gang neighbourhoods in Los Angeles

Urban Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 004209802110104
Author(s):  
Stefano Bloch ◽  
Susan A. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
New Deal ◽  
The Past ◽  
South Central ◽  
San Fernando ◽  
San Fernando Valley ◽  
Loan Corporation ◽  
Race And Place

We provide an example of how race- and place-based legacies of disinvestment initiated by New Deal Era redlining regimes under the auspices of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) were followed by decades of anti-gang over-policing tactics at the scale of the neighbourhood. We show how HOLC-mediated and mapped redlining has sustained community disinvestment and stigmatisation wrought by unjust and racist social policy seen to this day in contemporary geographies of gang abatement in the form of mapped gang injunction ‘safety zones’. As we illustrate with the use of two case studies from Los Angeles – in South-Central LA and LA’s San Fernando Valley – it is overwhelmingly redlined neighbourhoods that have remained marginalised, becoming civilly enjoined ‘gang’ neighbourhoods faced with oppressive anti-gang policing tactics over the past few decades.

Codifying Invisible Borders: How Municipal Ordinances Inscribe Market Values on the Landscape in Downtown Los Angeles

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-393
Author(s):  
Mindy Farabee
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Homeless Population ◽  
Neighborhood Revitalization ◽  
Housing Crisis ◽  
Market Values ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
The City

AbstractZoning codes dramatically impact every community they touch. Ostensibly, these ordinances are meant to impose some collectively determined order on our built environments. In practice, they often draw lines in the sand that distribute power unevenly between residents. As home to the U.S.’ second largest homeless population, Los Angeles is but a stark example of the widespread housing crisis hitting many cities around the globe. In the 1970s, this is where the city drew borders around its Skid Row and consolidated social services in a bid to contain homelessness within the region’s urban core. As part of a an ambitious initiative launched in 2013, the city is now updating the zoning codes across its downtown area, a move that is prompting a vigorous debate over the role of municipal ordinances in codifying market-driven approaches to neighborhood revitalization. This interview engages with the Janus face of borders as inclusionary and exclusionary, asking: through what mechanisms – subtle and overt – do zoning codes dictate the shape of our private and communal spaces? And how can communities stake out their turf among competing value systems?

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