Los Angeles
Creative Horizon
Portrait
Los Angeles annexed water rights two hundred kilometres north in 1913 to make its growth possible, and the aqueduct is why a desert basin holds four million people. The film industry came for the light and the varied terrain, and the city has no single downtown — Dorothy Parker's description of seventy-two suburbs in search of a city is unfair but persistent.
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Beverly Hills — Rodeo DriveSanta Monica — The End of Route 66Malibu — Twenty-Seven MilesNewport Beach — The Balboa Peninsula
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