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American urban history is the study of cities of the United States. Local historians have always written about their own cities. Starting in the 1920s, and led by Arthur Schlesinger, Sr. at Harvard, professional historians began comparative analysis of what cities have in common, and started using theoretical models and scholarly biographies of specific cities. The United States has also had a long history of hostility to the city, as characterized for example by Thomas Jefferson's agrarianism. Mary Sies (2003) argues:
American urban history is a branch of the history of the United States and of the broader field of Urban history. That field of history examines the historical development of cities and towns, and the process of urbanization. The approach is often multidisciplinary, crossing boundaries into fields like social history, architectural history, urban sociology, urban geography business history, and even archaeology. Urbanization and industrialization were popular themes for 20th-century historians, often tied to an implicit model of modernization, or the transformation of rural traditional societies.
Los Angeles (i/lɒs ˈændʒəlᵻs/ loss AN-jə-ləs or loss AN-jə-liss) (Spanish for "The Angels"), officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L.A., is the second-largest city in the United States after New York City, the most populous city in the state of California, and the county seat of Los Angeles County.
Situated in Southern California, Los Angeles is known for its mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, sprawling metropolis, and as a major center of the American entertainment industry. Los Angeles lies in a large coastal basin surrounded on three sides by mountains reaching up to and over 10,000 feet (3,000 m).
Historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was officially founded on September 4, 1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence. In 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4, 1850, five months before California achieved statehood. The city experienced rapid growth with the discovery of oil.
Coordinates: 40°N 100°W / 40°N 100°W / 40; -100
The United States of America (USA), commonly referred to as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major territories and various possessions. The 48 contiguous states and Washington, D.C., are in central North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwestern part of North America and the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. At 3.8 million square miles (9.842 million km2) and with over 320 million people, the country is the world's third or fourth-largest by total area and the third most populous. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The geography and climate of the United States are also extremely diverse, and the country is home to a wide variety of wildlife.
After exploring America for 2.5 months we had to put together a list of our most favourite cities. Some of these, we only got to experience for a day and others we spent over a week in... needless to say, the diversity of America is certainly what makes it so great (at least for us Canadians). Feel free to roast us for our selection, we'd love to hear which cities you think are the best and why! Here are the Top 10 American Cities to visit!! Special city shout outs to Provo, Dallas, Kissimmee, North Carolina, and Mississippi! :P FOLLOW US and SUBSCRIBE for more: Snap: @sundayfundayz Like: https://www.facebook.com/sundayfundayz Follow: http://twitter.com/sundayfundayz Insta: http://instagram.com/highonlifeco Vine: https://vine.co/sundayfundayz Pics: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sunday...
These are the top tourist destinations brought to you by way of the U.S. of A. Join http://www.WatchMojo.com as we count down our picks for the top 10 must-visit American cities. Check us out at http://www.Twitter.com/WatchMojo, http://instagram.com/watchmojo and http://www.Facebook.com/WatchMojo. Also, check out the trivia section for this video: http://watchmojo.com/video/id/13083/#trivia Special thanks to our users Nc3210, ian_a_wm2014, e-sam and PepsiYes RacismNo for submitting this idea through our Suggest Tool at http://www.WatchMojo.com/Suggest Check out the voting page here, http://watchmojo.com/suggest/Top%20ten%20must%20visit%20american%20cities If you want to suggest an idea for a WatchMojo video, check out our interactive Suggestion Tool at http://www.WatchMojo.com/suggest ...
The Interstate Highway System was one of America's most revolutionary infrastructure projects. It also destroyed urban neighborhoods across the nation. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com to get up to speed on everything from Kurdistan to the Kim Kardashian app. Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H Or on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o
If you like travelling, you should avoid these cities and if you live in one of those, make sure your front door is locked. Here we take a look at America’s most dangerous cities with the highest crime rates. Subscribe to World5List http://goo.gl/cpJSA6 Find us on... -- http://www.boredbadger.com -- http://www.facebook.com/world5list The US is not the safest place in the world to live. In certain cities, the presence of violent street gangs and/or a bustling drug trade have caused the streets to become a dangerous place to be. Minneapolis, Minnesota Minneapolis is the biggest city in Minnesota. Once upon a time, it was the flour milling capital of the world, and it's home to a rich artisitic culture. Prince was born in Minneapolis, and Bob Dylan got his start in the city as well. Anch...
The best American cities you must visit! These top destinations in the U.S. are some of the most beautiful locations in the world.
America's cities are crumbling under poor infrastructure, and politicians aren't willing to spend the money needed to fix it. On the most recent infrastructure report card from the American Society of Civil Engineers, America's infrastructure got a D+. Trillions of dollars will be needed to bring our roads, bridges, and dams out of the danger zone. But what if we thought of infrastructure challenges as technology problems, rather than just political obstacles? And what if we got our best hackers and technologists to try to find ways to repair our cities using tools they built themselves? In this episode of REAL FUTURE, Cara Santa Maria goes to meet several Los Angeles city employees who are trying to use homemade technology to fix the city's urgent infrastructure needs, before it's too l...
Business week has come up with an interesting list of the top 50 American cities to live in. Number 10 is Anchorage, Alaska, which ranks high because of its fantastic air quality and ridiculous 1.7 park acres per resident. 9th on the list is San Francisco--a well-rounded city that has it all. Number 8 is Virginia Beach, a beautiful beach city with miles of boardwalks. San Diego, the city with the best weather in the country, is 7th on the list. Ranked 6th is Washington DC, the nation's capital with some of the best museums in the world and the lowest foreclosure rate on the list. Irvine, California - no. 5 - has the best schools of any city on the list and a median income of $92,195. Fourth is Scottsdale, Arizona, the wealthy Phoenix suburb surprisingly beat out the california citi...
Ranking with the most populated cities of the Contiguous United States, including information (state and population), map and pronunciation. Data sources: http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/PEP/2015/PEPANNRSIP.US12A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population __________ Have you found this video helpful? Any comment or suggestion is welcome! Video created with python + basemap + moviepy.
Los Angeles, with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in the state of California, and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of 468.67 square miles (1,213.8 km2), and is located in Southern California. Often known by its initials L.A., the city is the focal point of the larger Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana metropolitan statistical area, which contains 12,828,837 people as of 2010, and is one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world and the second largest in the United States. Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most ethnically diverse counties[8] in the United States, while the entire Los Angeles area itself has been recognized as th...
After exploring America for 2.5 months we had to put together a list of our most favourite cities. Some of these, we only got to experience for a day and others we spent over a week in... needless to say, the diversity of America is certainly what makes it so great (at least for us Canadians). Feel free to roast us for our selection, we'd love to hear which cities you think are the best and why! Here are the Top 10 American Cities to visit!! Special city shout outs to Provo, Dallas, Kissimmee, North Carolina, and Mississippi! :P FOLLOW US and SUBSCRIBE for more: Snap: @sundayfundayz Like: https://www.facebook.com/sundayfundayz Follow: http://twitter.com/sundayfundayz Insta: http://instagram.com/highonlifeco Vine: https://vine.co/sundayfundayz Pics: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sunday...
These are the top tourist destinations brought to you by way of the U.S. of A. Join http://www.WatchMojo.com as we count down our picks for the top 10 must-visit American cities. Check us out at http://www.Twitter.com/WatchMojo, http://instagram.com/watchmojo and http://www.Facebook.com/WatchMojo. Also, check out the trivia section for this video: http://watchmojo.com/video/id/13083/#trivia Special thanks to our users Nc3210, ian_a_wm2014, e-sam and PepsiYes RacismNo for submitting this idea through our Suggest Tool at http://www.WatchMojo.com/Suggest Check out the voting page here, http://watchmojo.com/suggest/Top%20ten%20must%20visit%20american%20cities If you want to suggest an idea for a WatchMojo video, check out our interactive Suggestion Tool at http://www.WatchMojo.com/suggest ...
The Interstate Highway System was one of America's most revolutionary infrastructure projects. It also destroyed urban neighborhoods across the nation. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com to get up to speed on everything from Kurdistan to the Kim Kardashian app. Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H Or on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o
If you like travelling, you should avoid these cities and if you live in one of those, make sure your front door is locked. Here we take a look at America’s most dangerous cities with the highest crime rates. Subscribe to World5List http://goo.gl/cpJSA6 Find us on... -- http://www.boredbadger.com -- http://www.facebook.com/world5list The US is not the safest place in the world to live. In certain cities, the presence of violent street gangs and/or a bustling drug trade have caused the streets to become a dangerous place to be. Minneapolis, Minnesota Minneapolis is the biggest city in Minnesota. Once upon a time, it was the flour milling capital of the world, and it's home to a rich artisitic culture. Prince was born in Minneapolis, and Bob Dylan got his start in the city as well. Anch...
The best American cities you must visit! These top destinations in the U.S. are some of the most beautiful locations in the world.
America's cities are crumbling under poor infrastructure, and politicians aren't willing to spend the money needed to fix it. On the most recent infrastructure report card from the American Society of Civil Engineers, America's infrastructure got a D+. Trillions of dollars will be needed to bring our roads, bridges, and dams out of the danger zone. But what if we thought of infrastructure challenges as technology problems, rather than just political obstacles? And what if we got our best hackers and technologists to try to find ways to repair our cities using tools they built themselves? In this episode of REAL FUTURE, Cara Santa Maria goes to meet several Los Angeles city employees who are trying to use homemade technology to fix the city's urgent infrastructure needs, before it's too l...
Business week has come up with an interesting list of the top 50 American cities to live in. Number 10 is Anchorage, Alaska, which ranks high because of its fantastic air quality and ridiculous 1.7 park acres per resident. 9th on the list is San Francisco--a well-rounded city that has it all. Number 8 is Virginia Beach, a beautiful beach city with miles of boardwalks. San Diego, the city with the best weather in the country, is 7th on the list. Ranked 6th is Washington DC, the nation's capital with some of the best museums in the world and the lowest foreclosure rate on the list. Irvine, California - no. 5 - has the best schools of any city on the list and a median income of $92,195. Fourth is Scottsdale, Arizona, the wealthy Phoenix suburb surprisingly beat out the california citi...
Ranking with the most populated cities of the Contiguous United States, including information (state and population), map and pronunciation. Data sources: http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/PEP/2015/PEPANNRSIP.US12A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population __________ Have you found this video helpful? Any comment or suggestion is welcome! Video created with python + basemap + moviepy.
Los Angeles, with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in the state of California, and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of 468.67 square miles (1,213.8 km2), and is located in Southern California. Often known by its initials L.A., the city is the focal point of the larger Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana metropolitan statistical area, which contains 12,828,837 people as of 2010, and is one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world and the second largest in the United States. Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most ethnically diverse counties[8] in the United States, while the entire Los Angeles area itself has been recognized as th...
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