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Reading L.A.: The Olmsted Brothers plan and what might have been
Culture MonsterThe latest post in Christopher Hawthorne's Reading L.A. series is on "Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region"... -
John D. Olmsted dies at 73; naturalist preserved open space in Northern California
John D. Olmsted, a naturalist who led efforts to preserve Northern California nature areas, open space and trails, died of liver cancer March 8 at his home in Nevada City, Calif. He was 73.
Inspired by conservationist John Muir, Olmsted spent more than...Tags: Documentary (genre), Colleges and Universities, University of California, Berkeley, John Muir, Human Interest
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Blacktop manifesto
Times Staff WriterPARIS had its Baron Haussmann, who in the 19th century redesigned the French capital. New York had its Robert Moses, who before and after World War II redesigned that city's highways, parks and bridges. And Los Angeles? L.A. had the Traffic Commission....Tags: Transportation, World War I (1914-1918), Travel, Road Transportation, World War II (1939-1945)
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The arduous journey to a new Silver Lake Reservoir path
In a city that contains hundreds of miles of recreational walks, routes and trails, the opening of a new jogging path sounds about as noteworthy as a Pinkberry christening or another starlet DUI. But the new scenic path that opened in December along the...Tags: Tom LaBonge, Arts and Culture, Water Restrictions, El Salvador, Architecture
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Inauguration ushers in new hope for National Mall
Art CriticThe cascade of extraordinary scenes will officially begin Tuesday, with the nation's first inauguration of an African American president on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, in a city south of the Mason-Dixon Line, as the oath of office is sworn on Abraham...Tags: Barack Obama, Washington Monument, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Credit and Debt
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For Earth Day, go play in the garden
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTHIS weekend, you could celebrate Earth Day -- which is technically Tuesday -- among L.A.'s stalled freeways, its overbooked apartments and endless arid concrete sidewalks. Or, like the hundreds of thousands of us who trek through Southern California's...Tags: Earth Day, Travel, Philosophy, Central Park, Sculpture
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'My Two Polish Grandfathers and Other Essays on the Imaginative Life' by Witold Rybczynski
My Two Polish Grandfathers And Other Essays on the Imaginative Life Witold Rybczynski Scribner: 228 pp., $25 Overrun by exhibitionists, the memoir has turned spuriously confessional. Yet if there's one life story that could stand a bit more self-...Tags: Civil Unrest, Menachem Begin, Warsaw (Poland), World War II (1939-1945), Nazi Party
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Yosemite National Park: Sleeping in a bag or in a hotel bed?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterYOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — A creature of habit, Brian Ouzounian joins a swallow-like migration each summer to this park's glacier-cleaved valley. Ouzounian has camped in Yosemite Valley in nearly every one of his 57 years, setting down stakes a...Tags: Bodies of Water, Landforms, Glaciers, Death, John Muir
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Brooklyn, baby
Hartford Courant Staff WriterRegular visitors to New York should bypass the tried-and-true of Manhattan for the city streets less traveled. Just a hop, skip and a borough away lies Brooklyn, ripe for its own exploration. (PHOTOS INCLUDED) Regular visitors to New York should bypass...Tags: Calvert Vaux, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn (New York City), Park Slope, Ellis Island
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The Hottest Property
Times Staff Writer1880s Isaac Newton Van Nuys, entrepreneur and member of the homesteading Lankershim group, has built the San Fernando Valley's first wood-frame house, its curb appeal immediately driving up prices in an area of adobe structures. Van Nuys' house, which...Tags: Ava Gardner, Hotels and Accommodations, Mae West, W.C. Fields, Clark Gable
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Times Staff WriterNew York's secret gardens Surprising, serene refuges soften the city's hard-edged corners, cacophony and crowds. By Susan Spano Times NEW YORK Broadway runs on a diagonal; the D train goes to Yankee Stadium; for bagels, go to H&H on the Upper West...Tags: Christianity, Metropolitan Museum of Art, West Village, Andrew Carnegie, Queensboro Bridge
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New York's secret gardens
Times Staff WriterBroadway runs on a diagonal; the D train goes to Yankee Stadium; for bagels, go to H&H on the Upper West Side. There are plenty of guidebooks to tell you things like that. What they don't explain and what many visitors never understand is how residents...Tags: Christianity, Metropolitan Museum of Art, West Village, Andrew Carnegie, Queensboro Bridge
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