Historic Preservation

KCET (blog)
Jo Mora's Humorously Detailed L.A. History Map from 1942
KCET (blog)
by Yosuke Kitazawa Navigating through rows and floors of books at the Los Angeles Public Library's Central Branch can be a daunting task, usually requiring a glance at the floor map. What the map may not show, ironically, is that tucked away at the ...

Planned house demolition upsets Malibu neighbors
MyrtleBeachOnline.com
For that reason, the Los Angeles Conservancy has chosen not to weigh in. The city's planning staff has recommended that the Planning Commission approve the project, saying it conforms to municipal and local coastal program codes.

Fourth Annual Discover the Arts in Los Angeles Makes the Arts Accessible to ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
LOS ANGELES--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Discover the Arts, the longest running and largest arts campaign in the City, launches the fourth-year of its campaign later this month. Discover the Arts is held in conjunction with the City's annual Los ...

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Fourth Annual Discover the Arts in Los Angeles Makes the Arts Accessible to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
LOS ANGELES, Jan 31, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Discover the Arts, the longest running and largest arts campaign in the City, launches the fourth-year of its campaign later this month. Discover the Arts is held in conjunction with the City's annual Los ...

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Tuesday Meeting On Sale Of UCLA Japanese Garden In Bel-Air
Patch.com
If sold, the garden could bring in $5.7 million to the university, the Los Angeles Times reports. Designed in 1959 after a famous garden in Kyoto, the future of the garden has rallied the support of the Garden Conservancy, Los Angeles Conservancy, ...

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UCLA Japanese garden supporters meet to preserve public access
Los Angeles Times
For those interested in helping the Garden Conservancy, the Los Angeles Conservancy, the California Preservation Foundation and the California Garden and Landscape Society brainstorm ways to keep the UCLA Hannah Carter Japanese Garden open to the ...

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Planned house demolition upsets Malibu neighbors
Kansas City Star
By MARTHA GROVES LOS ANGELES -- A New York hedge fund manager's plan to demolish an eye-catching steel-and-glass home in Malibu and build a two-story California Mission-style residence has neighbors in a lather over the potential loss of ocean views ...

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Planned house demolition upsets Malibu neighbors
TheNewsTribune.com
For that reason, the Los Angeles Conservancy has chosen not to weigh in. The city's planning staff has recommended that the Planning Commission approve the project, saying it conforms to municipal and local coastal program codes.

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Los Angeles Times
Planned house demolition upsets Malibu neighbors
Los Angeles Times
For that reason, the Los Angeles Conservancy has chosen not to weigh in. The city's planning staff has recommended that the Planning Commission approve the project, saying it conforms to municipal and local coastal program codes.

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UCLA's Sale of Carter Japanese Garden Protested
The Rafu Shimpo
The Garden Conservancy, Los Angeles Conservancy, California Preservation Foundation, and California Garden and Landscape History Society, among other groups, have expressed their concern in writing to UCLA Chancellor Gene Block, urging the university ...

Wall Street Journal
Los Angeles
Wall Street Journal
10 am Walk a block to Pershing Square and join the Historic Downtown Walking Tour given by the Los Angeles Conservancy ($10, laconservancy.org ). You'll get a better understanding of the city's pre-automobile past—Downtown is where the city was ...

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Judge rules crews must halt demolition of Leuzinger High buildings
Daily Breeze
The alumni group - as well as the Los Angeles Conservancy, the largest local historic preservation organization in the United States - says the building is historic. District officials counter that the cafeteria is seismically unsound and dilapidated.

Los Angeles Times
UCLA's plan to sell Japanese garden draws criticism
Los Angeles Times
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times / January 22, 2012) By Martha Groves, Los Angeles Times For nearly half a century, the UCLA Hannah Carter Japanese Garden in Bel-Air has served as a serene stopover for visitors from locations as varied as Newhall, ...

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California OKs $6.5 million to plan Ballona Wetlands restoration
Los Angeles Times
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times / January 19, 2012) By Tony Barboza, Los Angeles Times In a first step toward restoring one of Southern California's few remaining wetlands and opening it to the public, the state has approved spending $6.5 million ...
Coastal Conservancy releases up to $6.5 million for Ballona Wetlands recovery89.3 KPCC
Coastal Conservancy Approves $6.5 Million for Ballona Wetlands Restoration PlansPatch.com

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Roser is Citizen of Year
The Durango Herald
By Ann Butler Herald Staff Writer To the tune of “Don't Fence Me In” as sung by the Bar-D Wranglers, Katharine Roser, the founding executive director of the La Plata Open Space Conservancy, was named Citizen of the Year by the Durango Chamber of ...

Los Angeles Times
Foxes make comback on Catalina Island
UPI.com
"We're beyond proud," Ann Muscat, chief executive of the conservancy, told the Los Angeles Times. "It's a testament to what hard work, passion, money and the resiliency of nature can accomplish." Despite their growing numbers, she said, "we can't relax ...
Catalina Island fox makes astounding comebackLos Angeles Times
Catalina Island Fox outsmarts extinction89.3 KPCC (blog)

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Why the Tierra Luna development is a home run
The Downey Patriot
They were reviewed and vetted by NASA, the General Services Administration, the State Office of Historic Preservation, the Los Angeles Conservancy, the Downey Historical Society and the Aerospace Legacy Foundation. The Tierra Luna project will preserve ...