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• Agoura HillsAgoura Hills incorporated a year after Westlake Village, pushed largely by frustration with the county's failure to limit new residential building.
• AlhambraAlhambra takes its name from Washington Irving's Tales of the Alhambra, the book the developer's daughter Ruth was reading.
• ArcadiaLucky Baldwin bought Rancho Santa Anita in 1875 and at once began building, farming and planting orchards on the land that became Arcadia.
• Beverly GroveClose to three in four Beverly Grove housing units are rented, according to the neighborhood's Mapping L.A. profile.
• BeverlywoodEvery Beverlywood household pays fees to the Beverlywood Homes Association, and signs mark each entrance to the neighborhood.
• BradburyBradbury rushed its incorporation papers through on August 22, 1957, to keep from being folded into Duarte, which became a city the same day.
• BurbankMost of Burbank's electricity comes from the Magnolia Power Project, a 310-megawatt gas-fired plant on Magnolia Boulevard near Interstate 5.
• Canoga ParkIn 1845 Rancho El Escorpión, west of today's Fallbrook Avenue, was granted to three Chumash men, and the land was later known as Platt Ranch.
• CarthayRenters occupy almost 65 percent of the housing units in Carthay.
• Century CityCentury City's first tower, the Gateway West Building, was finished in 1963 under a master plan drawn by Welton Becket Associates on the old studio backlot.
• ChatsworthRancho Ex-Mission San Fernando, which took in the Chatsworth area, was the largest land grant in California once the United States acquired it.
• Cheviot HillsCalifornia Country Club Estates, built in 1952 where a country club once stood, is called New Cheviot by locals to set it apart from the older Cheviot Hills tract.
• Culver CityFrom 1932 to 1986 Culver City was the headquarters of the Hughes Aircraft Company.
• Del ReyDel Rey has been home to large Mexican-American and Japanese-American communities since it began, and renters now occupy close to 71 percent of its homes.
• Echo ParkEcho Park is named for the echoes a city parks superintendent heard while crews were building its lake in 1892.
• El SegundoNRG's El Segundo power plant came online in 2013, running a Siemens gas turbine alongside a steam turbine.
• EncinoRancho Los Encinos was granted to three Mission Indians in 1845, and part of it is preserved today as Los Encinos State Historic Park.
• FairfaxThe El Greco Apartments, a Mission Revival building from 1929, stand in the Fairfax District.
• GlendaleThe Verdugo Fire Communications Center in Glendale opened in 1979 to handle dispatch for 13 local fire departments.
• Granada HillsGranada Hills was founded in 1926 simply as Granada, and the Hills was added to its name 15 years later.
• Hermosa BeachWesterly sea breezes cool Hermosa Beach through summers that run hot elsewhere in the county and clear the smog on most days of the year.
• Hidden HillsHidden Hills became the 73rd city in Los Angeles County on October 19, 1961.
• HollywoodHollywood voted to become a municipality on November 9, 1903, by a margin of 88 to 77.
• Hollywood / Central LACentral Los Angeles holds the city's four most crowded districts, led by Koreatown at about 42,600 residents per square mile and followed by Westlake, East Hollywood and Pico-Union.
• Hollywood HillsThe Hollywood Hills neighborhood reaches south to Franklin Avenue and east along a fire road through Griffith Park, with Outpost Drive on its irregular western edge.
• Hollywood Hills WestHomeowners hold about 64 percent of the housing units in Hollywood Hills West, where the median resident age of 41 counts as old for the city.
• KoreatownAs Korean arrivals grew into the hundreds, their homes and shops spread to the southwest edge of the downtown business district, a walk from Little Tokyo and Chinatown.
• La Cañada FlintridgeThe city limits of La Cañada Flintridge climb into the San Gabriel Mountains to 3,440 feet along Mount Lukens Road.
• Lake BalboaLake Balboa is bounded by Roscoe Boulevard on the north, Victory Boulevard on the south and White Oak Avenue on the west, with Van Nuys Airport along part of its east side.
• Larchmont VillageBy one set of boundaries, Larchmont is framed by Melrose Avenue, Western Avenue, Beverly Boulevard and North Arden Boulevard.
• Laurel CanyonMost side roads in Laurel Canyon, among them Wonderland Avenue and Lookout Mountain Avenue, are not through streets, and Mulholland Drive splits the canyon in two.
• Los FelizFrank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House, built in 1924, stands in Los Feliz.
• Malibu / Santa Monica MountainsSandstone Peak, the high point of the Santa Monica Mountains at 3,111 feet, is volcanic rock despite its name.
• Mar VistaThe mid-century houses north of Venice Boulevard went up as plain, low-cost homes in what was then a remote corner of the city.
• Marina del ReyMarina del Rey lies about 4 miles south of Santa Monica and about 4 miles north of Los Angeles International Airport.
• Mid-WilshireIn Oxford Square, developer Emil Firth sold unimproved lots 50 to 100 feet wide and 171 feet deep, facing streets 70 feet across.
• Miracle MileIn the early 1920s Wilshire Boulevard west of Western Avenue was still an unpaved farm road running past dairies and bean fields.
• MonroviaThe Pacific Electric railway opened a line to Monrovia in 1903.
• Mount OlympusBefore it was built on, the steep scrub-covered hillside of Mount Olympus was known as goatland.
• Nichols CanyonComplaints about dust blowing from the quarries in Nichols Canyon were already being raised in 1912.
• North HollywoodIn 1912 the Bonner Fruit Company, the area's biggest employer, was canning peaches, apricots and other fruit in what is now North Hollywood.
• NorthridgeFaith Bible Church, the first church built in Northridge, went up in 1917.
• PalmsMost of Palms' first houses were razed for apartment buildings of two stories or more, and renters held about 87 percent of its homes in 2000.
• Pico-RobertsonPico-Robertson households average 2.1 people, low for Los Angeles, and the city put the neighborhood's population at 19,253 in 2008.
• Playa del ReyPlaya del Rey started out as Palisades del Rey, a 1921 land development by the Dickinson & Gillespie Company.
• Playa VistaThe Spruce Goose flying boat was assembled in a hangar on the Playa Vista site before its lone flight in 1947.
• Porter RanchThe Porter Ranch specific plan, adopted in 1989, set out the neighborhood's retail and commercial centers, and the Porter Ranch Town Center opened a decade later.
• Rancho Palos VerdesCoastal condominium projects such as the Palos Verdes Bay Club stirred local concern that led residents to incorporate Rancho Palos Verdes as a city.
• Rancho ParkRancho Park was once counted as part of Westwood, and after Olympic Boulevard split the area its southern half began pressing for a name of its own in the 1930s.
• Redondo BeachThe wetlands at the site of Redondo Beach's retired AES power plant once yielded salt that the Chowigna traded with other tribes.
• ResedaPieces of Reseda's 1920s and 1930s neighborhood still stand southwest of Sherman Way and Reseda Boulevard and in Reseda Ranch.
• Rolling HillsRolling Hills covers 3.0 square miles, and its population slipped from 1,860 in 2010 to 1,739 in 2020.
• Rolling Hills EstatesRolling Hills Estates became Los Angeles County's 60th city on September 18, 1957.
• San Fernando ValleyThe magnitude-6.7 Northridge earthquake of 1994 struck beneath the Valley and produced the strongest ground motions ever measured in a city.
• San GabrielSan Gabriel became a city on April 24, 1913, with about 1,500 residents.
• San Gabriel ValleySix years after Mission San Gabriel was founded, a destructive flood sent the friars north to rebuild it where the city of San Gabriel stands today.
• SawtelleThe City of Sawtelle lasted fewer than 30 years before Los Angeles annexed it, and in 2015 the area was named Sawtelle Japantown.
• Sherman OaksSherman Oaks is bordered by Studio City to the east, Van Nuys to the north, Encino to the west, and Bel Air and Beverly Hills Post Office to the south.
• Sierra MadreSierra Madre's Designated Historical Properties List names 48 properties, among them the Pioneer Cemetery of 1884.
• Silver LakeWalt Disney's first studio stood at Griffith Park Boulevard and Hyperion Avenue in Silver Lake, where a grocery store is now.
• South BaySeveral ports and harbors along the South Bay shore run boats out to Santa Catalina Island.
• South PasadenaThe Rialto Theatre in downtown South Pasadena, built in 1925, mixes Spanish Baroque and Egyptian styles.
• Sunset StripEd Ruscha photographed the street end to end for his 1966 artist's book Every Building on the Sunset Strip.
• TarzanaTarzana spreads over 8.79 square miles between Victory Boulevard and Topanga State Park and has some of the lowest population density in the city.
• Temple CityWalter P. Temple founded the town of Temple on May 30, 1923, planning a place where average families could own their homes.
• Toluca LakeBing Crosby's mansion on Toluca Lake was nearly all lost to fire in 1943.
• TopangaNeil Young bought a house in Topanga and recorded most of After the Gold Rush in its basement studio.
• TorranceMuch of the land under Torrance and the rest of the modern South Bay was once marshland.
• Valley GlenValley Glen counted 59,230 residents in the 2000 census, and city planners estimated 62,846 by 2008.
• Valley VillageA 2006 count put about 3,881 single-family homes in Valley Village, alongside 1,073 condominiums and 8,213 apartment units.
• Van NuysVan Nuys was the first new stop on the Pacific Electric's San Fernando Line, and the red cars helped its early land sales.
• VeniceAbout 620 single-family houses line Venice's inland walk streets, where front doors face footpaths and cars come in by the alleys behind.
• West HillsThree ranches and a silent film star's estate in West Hills are Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments, and two of them are now city parks.
• West HollywoodIn 1986 West Hollywood created an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that asks developers to include affordable units in new projects or pay a fee to the city instead.
• WestchesterWestchester started the twentieth century as farmland and hosted the cross-country ride of the equestrian eventing at the 1932 Olympics.
• Westlake VillageA Chumash village called Hipuc stood at the site of Westlake Village around 500 BCE.
• WestsideThe Los Angeles Almanac counted 413,351 people in the parts of the City of Los Angeles it places on the Westside.
• WestwoodBusinesses began opening in 1929 in Westwood Village, a district Janss planned, and it stayed the busiest of its kind on the Westside through the 1980s.
• Windsor SquarePaul Williams was among the architects who designed Windsor Square houses, though the homes that once faced Wilshire Boulevard were torn down for commercial buildings.
• Woodland HillsThe 300 pepper trees Victor Girard planted over Canoga Avenue became Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 93 in 1972.