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The Great Green Wall, officially known as the Three-North Shelter Forest Program (simplified Chinese: 三北防护林; traditional Chinese: 三北防護林; pinyin: Sānběi Fánghùlín), also known as the Three-North Shelterbelt Program, is a series of human-planted windbreaking forest strips (shelterbelts) in China, designed to hold back the expansion of the Gobi Desert, [1] and provide ...
The building was designed by Sumner P. Hunt and built in 1893. [3] It was originally an experimental kindergarten and has also been used over the years as a prestigious college preparatory school for girls, an inn and restaurant, a military barracks in World War II, the headquarters of L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics Foundation, and a shelter for homeless women.
The corridor is a fully underground, north-south route along mostly densely populated areas on the western side of the Los Angeles Basin; it would be operated as part of the K Line. The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) is prioritizing the project along with pressure from the West Hollywood residents.
Pete White, executive director of the Skid Row advocacy group Los Angeles Community Action Network, said he sees the towers as "one important feature of what a stabilized Skid Row can look like ...
Three Los Angeles Cultural-Historic Monuments are located on Lankershim: Campo de Cahuenga, El Portal Theater, and the Department of Water and Power Building. [9] Other notable landmarks on Lankershim include (from south to north): Yitzak Rabin Square, 10 Universal City Plaza, Universal Studios Hollywood, South Weddington Park, St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, Bob and Delores Hope Square ...
William Mead Homes is a public housing development located near Chinatown, a neighborhood of the city of Los Angeles.Nicknamed "Dogtown" because of its proximity to the historic Ann Street Animal Shelter [1] whose canine residents could be heard for blocks around, [2] [3] it is operated by the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles.
Dome Village was a self-governing community of "people unable or [...] unwilling to live in traditional [homeless] shelters". [1] Located in Downtown Los Angeles at 847 Golden Avenue, the complex consisted of 20 geodesic domes and was inhabited by "up to 34 individuals and their family members".
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