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English: Late afternoon aerial photograph of Los Angeles's Westwood neighborhood (center), including the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Wilshire District of tall buildings along Wilshire Boulevard; the adjacent Century City neighborhood, far right; the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains, and beyond that the San Fernando Valley, in the background; Interstate 405 at the left.
Westwood is a commercial and residential neighborhood in the northern central portion of the Westside region of Los Angeles, California. It is the home of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Bordering the campus on the south is Westwood Village, a major regional district for shopping, dining, movie theaters, and other entertainment.
Warner Avenue School Emerson Middle School University High School The Playboy Mansion Sign of Holmby Park in Holmby Hills [7] [8] [9]The first European on the land that present-day Holmby Hills, Bel Air, Westwood, and UCLA now occupy was the Spanish soldier Maximo Alanis, who was the grantee of the 4,438-acre (18 km 2) Rancho San Jose de Buenos Ayres from a Mexican land grant issued by Alta ...
City Hall would do best by setting up offices in the historic Westwood View school, designed by the prominent architectural firm of Neville, Sharp and Simon and dedicated in 1969. To wit, the ...
Century City is a 176-acre (71.2 ha) neighborhood and business district in Los Angeles, California, United States.Located on the Westside to the south of Santa Monica Boulevard around 10 miles (16 km) west of downtown Los Angeles, Century City is one of the most prominent employment centers in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, and its skyscrapers form a distinctive skyline on the city's westside.
While the fate of the Bruin remains unclear, Hollywood director Jason Reitman led a group that bought the nearby Village, which launched as part of the Fox theater chain during the Great Depression.
As a more recently developed section of the city, the Westside initially lagged behind other parts of the city in the designation of HCMs. In the first 20 years of the Cultural Heritage Commission's existence (August 1962 - August 1982), only three buildings (and three trees or groups of trees) on the Westside were designated as Historic-Cultural Monuments.
Located at 10777 W. Santa Monica Boulevard in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, the temple sits atop a small hill above the intersection of Overland Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard. The well manicured grounds are open to the public and are filled with various plants, including Canary Island Pine trees, several varieties of palm trees ...