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Mar 3, 2016 · Cannes - the city lies near the sea with beaches, though it is a bit smaller and unimportant within Europe. It is a host city for many entertainment events and award shows.
- California: Isolation and Connection
- World's Fifth-Largest Economy
- Belonging in Europe
- Geographically Far — But Ideologically Close
- California in Europe?
While the Gold Rush of 1849 hastened its incorporation into the United States, California remained isolated for many decades thereafter, lying on the other side of a vast and treacherous continent. Only the advent of transcontinental rail travel and the building of the Panama Canal firmly connected the state with the rest of the country. Yet, even ...
Even today, California is not just the greatest and most populous of American states. It is still a country of its own — and an enormous one. In 2000, it nudged ahead of France as the world's fifth-largest economy. Los Angeles County alone would have been the 16th-largest economy in the world. Of course, not many people in California would want it ...
Yet, in one important respect, California is similar to Europe. It is its politics. Unlike the rest of the United States, where ideology seems non-existent, California has produced plenty of radicals both on the right and the left of the ideological spectrum. From former Governor Jerry Brown to the John Birch Society, California politics has been m...
That explains why California is blazing a new path in standing up to car manufacturers. While gas guzzling cars have become a religion in the United States, California has long had highly restrictive emission standards. Now it is essentially taking steps to ensure that the state of California will do its part to halt global warming — even as the re...
Imagine if California were located in Europe. It would be the third-largest economy in the European Union. Although only about two-thirds the size of Germany, California's GDP — at $1.35 trillion — would put it within striking distance of the United Kingdom. Because of its technological prowess and entrepreneurial pizzazz, its role in the euro-zone...
Apr 23, 2018 · Advertisement. From the editor: “L.A. Urbanized” is a series of articles exploring why Los Angeles is currently in the midst of an urban revolution and what it means for the city’s future. It documents the evolving development landscape of the region over the past few decades, identifies what key events brought about its urbanist turn ...
Los Angeles, [a] often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California. With roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits as of 2020, [7] Los Angeles is the second-most populous city in the United States, behind only New York City; it is also the commercial, financial and cultural center of ...
California portal. v. t. e. The history of Los Angeles began in 1781 when 44 settlers from central New Spain (modern Mexico) established a permanent settlement in what is now Downtown Los Angeles, as instructed by Spanish Governor of Las Californias, Felipe de Neve, and authorized by Viceroy Antonio María de Bucareli.
Sep 23, 2023 · Yet by 1920, Los Angeles grew to America’s 10th largest city with 576,672 people, and America’s fifth largest city with 1.504 million people in 1940, the US Census Bureau estimates.
Aug 8, 2011 · The Evolving Urban Form: Los Angeles. by Wendell Cox 08/08/2011. Los Angeles has grown more than any major metropolitan region in the high income world except for Tokyo since the beginning of the twentieth century, and also since 1950. In 1900, the city (municipality, see Note) of Los Angeles had little over 100,000 people and ranked 36th in ...
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