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• Agoura HillsHillrise, Liberty Canyon and Lake Lindero were the first housing tracts in Agoura, and the 1980s brought large new subdivisions.
• AlhambraCondominiums, rental apartments and mixed-use buildings cluster in Alhambra's downtown, and owners hold about 42 percent of the city's housing.
• ArcadiaArcadia turned residential in the 1920s and 1930s, when small farms and chicken ranches gave way to homes.
• Beverly GroveThe Edinburgh Bungalow Court, a Spanish Colonial Revival complex at Edinburgh and Waring avenues, was named a city historic-cultural monument in 2016.
• BeverlywoodThe Beverlywood Homes Association enforces limits on house size, style, color and design across 1,354 single-family homes through a review committee.
• BradburyBradbury counted just 357 housing units in the 2020 census.
• BurbankBurbank runs its own utility, Burbank Water and Power, which supplies water and electricity to about 45,000 households.
• Canoga ParkLacking an independent water supply, Owensmouth joined the City of Los Angeles in 1917.
• CarthayRenters occupy close to two-thirds of Carthay's housing units, and home or apartment owners the rest.
• Century CityA census count found only about 2,400 residents in Century City's 1,812 housing units, and apartment owners held about 60 percent of them.
• ChatsworthOwners hold about 71 percent of Chatsworth's housing, and the neighborhood's landmarks include the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in the hills above it.
• Cheviot HillsRising prices have brought a surge of new building to Cheviot Hills at the cost of many of its original 1920s houses.
• Culver CityIn the late 1960s part of the MGM backlot in Culver City was sold and turned into a residential subdivision and the Raintree Plaza shopping center.
• Del ReyDel Rey remained a district of market gardens well into the 1950s, and renters now hold about 70 percent of its housing.
• Echo ParkEcho Park Lake began in 1868 as a drinking water reservoir filled by a ditch from the Los Angeles River.
• El SegundoRenters occupy about 57 percent of El Segundo's homes, and the Hyperion treatment plant expansion of the 1980s led to the restoration of its once polluted beach.
• EncinoOwners hold about 62 percent of Encino's housing, which spreads from the valley floor up the north slope of the Santa Monica Mountains.
• FairfaxRenters hold about 71 percent of the Fairfax District's housing, and CBS Television City has stood at Fairfax and Beverly since 1952.
• GlendaleIn the 1980s many single-family homes in south Glendale were torn down for apartment and condominium construction.
• Granada HillsThe Van Norman Reservoir, the southern end of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, lies in Granada Hills.
• Hermosa BeachCal Water's Hermosa-Redondo system supplies the city, blending local groundwater with water bought from the Metropolitan Water District.
• Hidden HillsAbout 90 percent of the gated city's occupied homes are owner-occupied, many on two-acre lots behind white three-rail fences with no sidewalks or streetlights.
• HollywoodHollywood voted in 1910 to merge with Los Angeles to secure an adequate water supply and a connection to the city's sewer system.
• Hollywood / Central LAMapping L.A. counts twenty-three city neighborhoods across nearly 58 square miles of Central Los Angeles.
• Hollywood HillsRenters occupy about 56 percent of the housing in the Hollywood Hills, a neighborhood that also holds the Forest Lawn and Mount Sinai cemeteries.
• Hollywood Hills WestHollywood Hills West meets Studio City to the north and Hollywood, West Hollywood and Beverly Hills along its southern and western edges.
• KoreatownKorean immigrants who arrived from the 1960s found housing in Mid-Wilshire, and later arrivals from South Korea filled offices left vacant along the old Wilshire corridor.
• La Cañada FlintridgeIn January 2025 nearly the whole of La Cañada Flintridge was evacuated during the Eaton Fire.
• Lake BalboaThe park lake at the center of Lake Balboa is filled with water from the Tillman Water Reclamation Plant.
• Larchmont VillageRenters hold about 73 percent of Larchmont's housing, and its streets have served as a location for film shoots old and new.
• Laurel CanyonIn 1908 the Lookout Mountain Park and Water Co. bought 280 acres on Lookout Mountain, just west of Laurel Canyon, and sold them as mountain vacation lots.
• Los FelizThe Los Feliz Heights Residential Historic District preserves Period Revival houses built from 1920 to 1949, though renters hold about three-quarters of the neighborhood's housing.
• Malibu / Santa Monica MountainsSeveral creeks in the Santa Monica Mountains feed the Los Angeles River watershed, and roads such as Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Beverly Glen Boulevard climb across the range.
• Mar VistaMar Vista grew up along the Venice Short Line, a 1902 rail line on what is now Venice Boulevard, and boomed from the 1950s through the 1970s.
• Marina del ReyLos Angeles County owns the harbor at Marina del Rey and runs it through its Department of Beaches and Harbors.
• Mid-WilshirePark Mile along Wilshire Boulevard has a three-story height limit meant to protect the single-family streets beside it.
• Miracle MileThe Miracle Mile HPOZ, one of two preservation zones in the neighborhood, takes in 1,347 properties.
• MonroviaHome building in Monrovia stalled during World War I and then surged, with a record number of building permits issued in 1923.
• Mount OlympusBuilt by developers Russ Vincent and Al Hess, Mount Olympus has about three houses per acre across its 300 acres.
• Nichols CanyonA New Year's Day rainstorm in 1931 badly damaged or swept away homes in Nichols Canyon.
• North HollywoodLankershim's first small farms relied on the high water table along the Tujunga Wash, and by the late 1920s the land was being marketed to homebuyers across the country.
• NorthridgeAfter World War II, Northridge's farm lots were subdivided into housing tracts to meet veterans' demand for single-family homes.
• PalmsThe first Palms tract map, dated December 26, 1886, laid out an agricultural and vacation community.
• Pico-RobertsonRenters hold about 73 percent of the housing in the South Robertson area, which takes in Beverlywood, Castle Heights and Reynier Village.
• Playa del ReyBetween 1966 and 1975 the homes of southern Playa del Rey were bought and moved or demolished to make room for LAX and escape its jet noise.
• Playa VistaPlaya Vista's parks and landscaped areas are watered entirely with recycled water.
• Porter RanchVery few homes stood north of Rinaldi Street before 1965, and those that did were reached only by Tampa Avenue.
• Rancho Palos VerdesOngoing land movement led the gas company to suspend service to 135 homes in July 2024, and the city has since installed dozens of dewatering wells.
• Rancho ParkMany of Rancho Park's modest houses have since been rehabbed into larger, more modern homes.
• Redondo BeachWell water in the Hermosa-Redondo system that serves Redondo Beach is blended to reduce dissolved solids from seawater intrusion before it reaches taps.
• ResedaMost of Reseda's early streets had no sidewalks or pavement until they were added between 1918 and the early 1920s.
• Rolling HillsHomeowners in Rolling Hills must paint their houses white and keep horse property on their lots, or at least room to build stalls.
• Rolling Hills EstatesThe Peartree Lane Landslide destroyed several homes in Rolling Hills Estates on July 8, 2023.
• San Fernando ValleyOnce the Los Angeles Aqueduct opened, towns across the Valley voted to annex to Los Angeles so they could connect to the city's water system.
• San GabrielRenters occupied about 54 percent of San Gabriel's homes in the 2020 census.
• San Gabriel ValleyThe valley takes its name from the San Gabriel River, which runs south through its middle.
• SawtellePlentiful spring water made the land around Sawtelle a significant place in the Los Angeles Basin for centuries before the veterans home arrived.
• Sherman OaksRenters hold about 59 percent of Sherman Oaks housing, and the 1994 Northridge earthquake damaged the surrounding area.
• Sierra MadreSierra Madre took over the water rights and pipes of the Baldwin Estate and the Sierra Madre Water Company in 1914 and later bought mountain land near Orchard Camp to protect its supply.
• Silver LakeMuch of the Silver Lake Residential Historic District comes from the Moreno Highlands tract on the prime land around the reservoir.
• South BayThe South Bay takes in the Port of Los Angeles along the San Pedro and Wilmington shorelines, the busiest port in the United States.
• South PasadenaAbout 56 percent of South Pasadena's occupied homes were rented in the 2020 census.
• Sunset StripIn the 1920s nightclubs and casinos moved onto the Sunset Strip, and its Garden of Allah apartments housed writers such as Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley.
• TarzanaThe Los Angeles Suburban Homes Company bought the land in 1909, a decade before Burroughs established Tarzana Ranch there.
• Temple CityAfter state law allowed single-family lots to be split, Temple City adopted rules such as a 1,000-square-foot courtyard between units that discouraged duplexes.
• Toluca LakeArtesian springs fed Toluca Lake until the paving of the Los Angeles River and well pumping lowered the water table, and wells now keep the lake filled.
• TopangaThe Palisades Fire destroyed most homes near Topanga State Beach at the mouth of the canyon.
• TorranceThe Olmsted tract at the core of Torrance covers 109 city blocks, and many houses on its avenues passed the century mark in 2012.
• Valley GlenMore than 70 percent of homeowners in part of Van Nuys signed a 1997 petition to become Valley Glen, and the new neighborhood grew to more than 3,000 homes.
• Valley VillageValley Village lies between Burbank Boulevard, the Hollywood Freeway, the Ventura Freeway and Coldwater Canyon Avenue, and frost touches it a few times most winters.
• Van NuysVan Nuys was annexed by Los Angeles in 1915 once the aqueduct could supply the water it needed to grow, and renters now hold about 74 percent of its housing.
• VeniceBy 1925 the young city of Venice was struggling with roads, water and sewer systems that badly needed repair and expansion.
• West HillsThe Platt Ranch land in West Hills did not join the Los Angeles water system until 1958 and stayed undeveloped until 1961.
• West HollywoodWith more than 25,000 housing units packed at nearly 14,000 per square mile, West Hollywood is a city where eight in ten households rent.
• WestchesterAirport expansion cost Westchester about 4,500 homes as the city bought and cleared noise-affected streets just north of LAX.
• Westlake VillageWestlake Lake sits in the Malibu Creek watershed, and releases from it are governed by an agreement with the State Water Resources Control Board.
• WestsideAfter readers sent in more than 300 maps, the Los Angeles Times Mapping L.A. project settled on a Westside of about 101 square miles.
• WestwoodThe Janss Investment Company opened Westwood to homebuyers in 1922 as a tract of about 1,000 residential and business lots on the old Wolfskill Ranch.
• Windsor SquareThe Windsor Square Association counts about 1,100 homes, and early deed restrictions required each buyer to spend a set minimum on building a house.
• Woodland HillsThe district that became Woodland Hills was promoted with new roads, newspaper advertising and the planting of 120,000 trees to draw residents.