Urban California

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Urban California The Growth of Los Angeles

• CA Urban Patterns
• Earlier than frontier West
• Not connected to industrialization
• Large urban population by 1850
• 1860, 20
• 1880, 43
• 1900, 52, 40 cities
• 1950, more than 600 cities

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Total population by city

• Los Angeles 3.94 million
• San Diego 1.3 million
• San Jose 930,000
• San Francisco 800,00
• Long Beach 495,000
• Fresno 465,000
• Sacramento 450,000
• Oakland 414,000
• Santa Ana 354,000
• Anaheim 350,000

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Pre 1900 Growth of LA

• Southern Pacific, 1876
• Los Angeles promoted by Boosters, Realtors
• Health tourism
• Exotic
• Middle class vacation destination
• Surpasses SF in size by 1910

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L.A. City Hall, built in 1920s
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Oil Industry

• Golden Age of the Automobile
• Affordable cars
• Affordable oil
• Doheny
• Beverly Hills, 1890
• 1920s
• Standard Oil, Unocal

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Manufacturing

• LA Desirable for Manufacturing
• Climate
• Cheap land
• Cheap water energy
• Cheap labor (Latinos, disciplined
  workforceslaves to the bungalow)
• Autos
• Ford, General Motors
• LA is 2nd largest (cars rubber tires) 1920s
• Steel, Food processing, Oil Refineries
• Creates new residential geography for the city
• White, blue-collar residential neighborhoods
• Alameda Corridor
• LAs IntraUrban Railway Pacific Electric
  Railway The Red Car

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Ford Plant, Long Beach 1930
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• Pacific Electric Railway
• The Red Car
• Henry Huntington

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Henry Huntington
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Sierra Madre 1908
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Hollywood

• Arrives 1910s
• Golden Age by 1920s
• Sells ideas about L.A.

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• Roxie Theater518 S Broadway

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• Los Angeles Theater615 S. Broadway

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Suburbanization Decentralization

• LA always decentralized
• Anti-urban ideas
• Urban separatism
• Central city decay
• State and National Problem

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Gentrification Urban Renewal

• 1960s
• Retail Residential Change
• Loss of low-income housing, loss of mom pop
  stores, displacement of poor

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