El Pueblo Los Angeles: starting a city story with its historic core
The plaza area preserves buildings from several periods rather than one intact founding moment.
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Explore the neighborhoods, public spaces and buildings of Los Angeles through 8 articles.
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Grand Central Market Los Angeles: reading a downtown food hall through its building and vendors
Grand Central Market carries a long food-retail history inside a downtown commercial building.
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Bradbury Building: what a light-filled court reveals from the permitted viewing area
The Bradbury’s interior court turns a compact office building into a vertical space of light and circulation.
Grand Park Los Angeles: a civic landscape spread across downtown blocks
Grand Park uses terraces and routes to connect different levels of Los Angeles’s Civic Center.
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Little Tokyo Los Angeles: public landmarks within a residential and commercial community
Little Tokyo’s buildings record community formation, forced removal and repeated pressures on the neighborhood.
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Union Station Los Angeles: courtyards, halls and the architecture of arrival
Union Station’s architecture and transport role share a site with the history of Los Angeles’s original Chinatown.
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Venice Canals Los Angeles: walking waterside streets while respecting residential life
Venice’s surviving canals are a maintained residential landscape with public paths along the water.
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Pershing Square: reading a downtown square through successive redesigns
Pershing Square’s successive designs reveal changing ideas about what a downtown public space should provide.