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Livable California was founded in 2018 by Marin County-based activist and former teacher Susan Kirsch [6] and former oil and gas executive Rick Hall of San Francisco. [ 2 ] [ 7 ] They organized in opposition to Senator Scott Wiener ’s housing development bill SB 827 , helping to defeat it. [ 2 ]
Donald Sidney Appleyard (July 26, 1928 – September 23, 1982) was an English-American urban designer and theorist, teaching at the University of California, Berkeley. [1] Born in England, Appleyard studied first architecture, and later urban planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
According to the 2021 American Community Survey conducted by the United States Census Bureau, 56.08% (20,763,638) of California residents age 5 and older spoke only English at home, while 43.92% spoke another language at home. 60.35% of people who speak a language other than English at home are able to speak English "well" or "very well", with ...
While the population of minorities (defined as anyone who is not fully non-Hispanic white) in the US accounts for 139.8 million of 331.5 million US residents in 2020, 18.5% of the national total live in California (2020). [35] California has the highest number and second highest percentage of Asian Americans by state.
Present-day Baja California of Mexico was misrepresented in early maps as an island.This example c. 1650. Restored. The first European explorers, flying the flags of Spain and of England, sailed along the coast of California from the early 16th century to the mid-18th century, but no European settlements were established.
Map of the United States with California highlighted. California is a state located in the Western United States. It is the most populous state and the third largest by area after Alaska and Texas. According to the 2020 United States Census, California has 39,538,223 inhabitants and 155,779.22 square miles (403,466.3 km 2) of land. [1]
In the California State Senate, Los Angeles County is split between 13 legislative districts. [66] In the California State Assembly, Los Angeles County is split between 24 legislative districts. [67] On November 4, 2008, Los Angeles County was almost evenly split over Proposition 8, which amended the California Constitution to ban same-sex ...
Greater Los Angeles is the most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. state of California, encompassing five counties in Southern California extending from Ventura County in the west to San Bernardino County and Riverside County in the east, with the city of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County at its center, and Orange County to the southeast.