Landscape Infrastructure of Los Angeles

Los Angeles County covers 4,752 square miles and contains nearly ten million residents (more than the individual populations of forty-two U.S. states). Despite its infamous reputation as a chaotic, unplanned accident, there is a deliberate structure to this metropolis's decentralized character. This animated map illustrates the many factors that make up this region's diverse physical landscape.
By Mia Lehrer Landscape Architects
This video is part of Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A., a Getty initiative that brings together local cultural institutions for a wide-ranging look at the postwar built environment of Los Angeles, from its famous residential architecture to its vast freeway network, revealing the city's development and ongoing global impact in new ways.
Learn more about the exhibition, "Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990," co-organized by the Getty Research Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, at the National Building Museum October 20, 2013 through March 10, 2014. www.nbm.org/exhibitions-collec...
Co-organized by the Getty Research Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, "Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940--1990" was part of the initiative Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A., which celebrated Southern California's lasting impact on modern architecture through exhibitions and programs organized by seventeen area cultural institutions from April through July 2013.

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