But the design in its pure form would not last long. Tar from the La Brea pits began to seep into the reflecting pools, and they were filled within a few years. Alterations and additions further ...

The Getty, California Science Center, and Natural History Museum are all offering online programming for free.

The protest was inspired by the women of Moms 4 Housing, who drew national attention for their occupation of a house in Oakland earlier this year. But unlike the Oakland house, which was owned by ...

On January 30, 1964, shortly after her 30th birthday, Joan Didion married fellow writer John Gregory Dunne in central California’s Mission San Juan Bautista. According to Tracy Daugherty’s ...

A breakdown of the vacancy issue, how it’s measured, and why it keeps coming up as LA struggles to overcome its housing and homelessness crisis.

It was the hot, fraught summer of 1963. Every weekend 18-year-old college students Bobbie and Renee Hodges would trek over to the boiling, treeless Torrance housing tract of Southwood Riviera ...

Thanks to Golden State Mutual Life Insurance, thousands of black Californians—in a time of profound racial discrimination—were able to obtain home loans and build transgenerational wealth.

A proposal out of Sacramento to put denser housing near transit has divided Californians. But a similar program is already underway in the city of Los Angeles. It’s an incentive program called ...

Circa’s duo of 35-story towers was touted as “a city within a city” with a two-acre private park, shops, and a host of luxe amenities all in one place when it opened last year. The ...

Los Angeles was Raymond Chandler’s muse, mistress, and his making. For his famous anti-hero, private eye Philip Marlowe, it is a torturous, nasty place filled with “tough-looking palm trees ...

Designed by Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects, Isla Intersection will feature rooftop gardens and a landscaped paseo to buffer apartments from the freeway.

There are more 50,000 streets in Los Angeles County. They are named after cult leaders (L. Ron Hubbard Way), martyred astronauts (Astronaut Ellison S. Onizuka Street), the view of a lighthouse ...