[20] The city was further expanded with the completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, which delivers water from Eastern California. 【参考译文】洛杉矶地区最初是土著通瓦人的居住地,后在1542年被胡安·罗德里格斯·卡布里略代表西班牙宣称拥有。这座城市由西班牙总督费利佩·德·内韦于1781年9月4日...
For a city that supposedly has no interest in history, Los Angeles has spent the past few weeks buried surprisingly deep in it. As the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Los Angeles aqueduct approached, museums, journals and radio stations embarked on a commemorative craze. The aqueduct,...
Now a West Coast powerhouse, Los Angeles was originally inhabited by indigenous tribes and expanded with settlers from Spain, Mexico and then gold prospectors, land speculators, laborers, oil barons and those seeking fame in Hollywood.
Los Angeles, as we know it today, was made possible by massive infrastructure projects that provide reliable sources of water to the otherwise semi-arid region. The mastermind behind many of these infrastructure projects in the early twentieth century wasWilliam Mulholland, the self-taught engineer ...
In writing “Chinatown,” with its plot revolving around a high-level water and real estate conspiracy, Towne was inspired by elements of the controversial history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct that brought water from the Owens Valley in the eastern Sierra Nevada down to L.A. earlier in th...
Los Angeles Aqueduct project: “It is true that the aqueduct made some of the richest tycoons in Los Angeles richer but not true that their greed was all that motivated its construction.” Not that such nuance mattered to the irate Owens Valley residents who took to dynamiting the aqueduct....
Visualizing water infrastructure with Sankey maps: a case study of mapping the Los Angeles Aqueduct, CaliforniaRecharge City is an ongoing landscape architecture research project seeking pragmatic options to recycle 502 million gallons of water dumped into the Pacific by the Hyperion Treatment Plant (El...
Los Angeles once had to defend itself against snotty Eastern culture critics, English novelists, and middlebrow gossip columnists like Herb Caen who, from Provincetown-on-the-Thyroid, condescendingly refers to “that city down south.” The implication was always that Los Angeles, the world’s ...
However, most of Los Angeles' water supply does not come from Northern California but rather a 112-year-old aqueduct that runs from the Owens Valley, east of the Sierra Nevada, as well as groundwater, according to CalMatters. According to AP, the fire hydrants had most l...
The determination of William Mulholland and Fred Eaton to bring faraway water to a parched population empowers the city of Los Angeles to ascend.