Networks and Settlements 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 history of this region's transportation routes and evolving settlement patterns.
By Phil Ethington, with Adrian Amler and Samuel Krueger
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. www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/...
Learn more about the initiative, Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.: www.pacificstandardtimepresent...

[@MetalMilitia072583]

This video led me down a 16 tab rabbit hole

[@dlazo32696]

😂😂😂 so true

[@chasbodaniels1744]

Great minds . . . . !!

[@blue-ck9ns]

“The valley is not LA” … but the valley is the biggest part of LA.

[@clarkewi]

Fascinating. A masterpiece. This should be done for all major US cities. Enlightening.

[@markrodriquez3777]

They completely missed Whittier.

[@Mashoe60]

Thanks for all the effort to create this view of LA development. I do feel that the picture could be better told by looking at population growth by regions, rather than incorporation of cities. The growth of LA pops up in red a few times without taking into account the annexation activity that grew it's boundaries. The Union Pacific and Santa Fe railroads, along with their efforts to found a major port is nonexistent. Port Ballona and the real estate boom of the 1880's are totally ignored?

[@joshuadoninguez3300]

La Habra was established as a city in 1925 and is part of Orange County, not LA County. However it’s sister city of La Habra Heights (Located North of La Habra) is part of LA County. Which is the one est. in 1978.

[@clarkewi]

Phenomenal and beautiful work.

[@rockerdrake]

Great stuff!

[@yournostroleeoleeolees.]

Thank You for the History

[@robertlock5501]

Excellent video

[@boyitalian21]

this video blew my goddamn mind, thank you for such a great presentation of information

[@maluithil]

Very neat!

[@arthurluong2872]

Cool video

[@antoniahamilton3201]

No mention of El Ranchito, located in Whittier, also known as the Pío Pico Adobe or Pío Pico Mansion, the final home of Pío Pico, the last Governor of Alta California under Mexican rule and a pivotal figure in early California history.

[@robillingworth8503]

I'm from La Mirada, formed in 1960, but there's no mention or showing of Whittier, much larger & older than La Mirada.

[@antoniahamilton3201]

Excellent presentation. There's no mention of The Battle of Río San Gabriel, fought on January 8, 1847. It was a decisive action of the California campaign of the Mexican-American War that occurred at a ford of the San Gabriel River, at what are today parts of the cities of Whittier, Pico Rivera and Montebello, about ten miles south-east of downtown Los Angeles.

[@frankn.5439]

you forgot Boyle Heights !!

[@hj-mr5gg]

thats not even a city

[@edp2260]

There is an error in the freeway development shown. The part of the Ventura Freeway between Griffith park and 101 was completed long before 1979. We drove on it frequently in the early 1960s. It was a freeway then. I remember exiting on the Riverside drive bridge.

[@dogemlbb752]

I like your video

[@gutshotcrypto3559]

Dope

[@timothyodonnell8591]

The video omitted the Malibu Rancho (Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit)

[@HumanMakina]

What happened to Whittier

[@jjoshuadzz]

Ikr

[@timebot000]

@@jjoshuadzz ...the source here leaves Alot out, unseen

[@jjoshuadzz]

You forgot Whittier.

[@MetalMilitia072583]

Nixon must be turning over in his grave right now.

[@jjoshuadzz]

Ninja Tortoise well not really what i was referencing but ok xD

[@MetalMilitia072583]

@@jjoshuadzz I know but it's always a fun fact he went to Whittier College I like to share

[@jjoshuadzz]

Ninja Tortoise oh ok lol yeah ive seen his old house a couple times

[@mv4498]

Skipped Norwalk

[@Downey-2000]

Huntington Park

[@richbrowning1]

The freeway system development has many errors. I watched it grow as a boy in the 1950's and was a construction surveyor on the Pomona freeway from San Gabriel Blvd to Diamond Bar between 1965 and 1967. Interstate Highway Act was 1956. Re-signing the freeways came after that.

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[@gerb1754]

WHERE THE FUCK IS WHITTIER??!! IM DISLIKING IT

[@timebot000]

...must be alot Under Whittier, this channel won't say

[@Dishodiwaba]

There are some serious errors in a number of details. Two are worth mentioning. The freeway development animation is seriously out of whack. And the missions depended on the labor of "thousands of captive native American laborers"--held captive by whom? The pair of mission priests? Or the pair of Spanish soldiers at each mission? Or perhaps by both? Gimme a break!

[@HumanMakina]

What happened to Whittier?

[@Dishodiwaba]

Who is Whittier? @@HumanMakina

[@HumanMakina]

@@Dishodiwaba the city of Whittier

[@gerb1754]

@@Dishodiwaba your so dumb

[@Posteo1983]

Hi. Excelente video. Could you help me ? I would like to have a Greater Los Angeles paper urban map and a data base about this wonderful american city. I care everything about her. Her history , growing and evolution maps through the decades til present. It might be PDF ' s if you can. If you could indicate to me , please . A huge embrace. Gracias , amigos. Regards from Chile , South America.