Or, what the Wat Thai temple tussle in the San Fernando Valley teaches us about public space in America.

The shift from city centers to suburbs was reflected in post-World War II television programming.

Victorian values and Anglo(phile) aesthetics shaped the city’s infrastructure and architecture in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

In a 1991 interview with singer Graham Nash, David Hockney explained how he applied his drawing skills to photography via the computer.

Over a week and a half starting on March 1st, 1968, more than 10,000 students in mostly Chicano schools took part in what became known as the East Los Angeles School Blowouts.

The grainy pictures speak for themselves. Or so thought many Americans who watched the video of the March 3rd, 1991, beating of motorist Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.

In the early 20th century, the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce started marketing L.A as an earthquake-free alternative to San Francisco.

Just one year after the Rodney King verdict and subsequent LA riots, Anna Deveare Smith opened her one-woman show “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992."

In the 1920s, women's love of driving in auto-obsessed Los Angeles created traffic jams and a battle over women’s rightful place.

Sociological data from immediately after the riots in Watts, Los Angeles, in 1965 show major disparities in attitude by race.