Visualizing Income Inequality
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La #grève des #enseignants de #Los_Angeles pourrait faire boule de neige | JOCELYNE ZABLIT | États-Unis
▻https://www.lapresse.ca/international/etats-unis/201901/14/01-5211014-la-greve-des-enseignants-de-los-angeles-pourrait-faire-boule-de-« Nous voici en ce jour pluvieux, dans l’un des pays les plus #riches du monde, dans l’un des États les plus riches du pays, un État aussi bleu (couleur du parti démocrate) que possible - et dans une ville qui regorge de millionnaires ! - avec des enseignants obligés de faire la grève pour obtenir le minimum pour nos élèves », s’est exclamé Alex Caputo-Pearl, président du syndicat des enseignants de Los Angeles (UTLA), lors d’une conférence de presse.
« Nous défendons l’essence même de l’#éducation_publique. La question est la suivante : est-ce que nous affamons nos écoles publiques de proximité pour aboutir à leur #privatisation ? Ou bien est-ce que nous investissons dans ces écoles, pour nos élèves et pour une ville en plein développement ? », a-t-il ajouté.
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#Typhus reaches ’epidemic levels’ in parts of #Los_Angeles area
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/typhus-reaches-epidemic-levels-parts-los-angeles-area-n917271“Infection happens when the feces from infected fleas are rubbed into cuts or scrapes in the skin or rubbed into the eyes,” the county health department states on its website.
Some experts, however, say the true culprit is the inhumane conditions the county’s expanding homeless population lives in.
Typhus — Wikipédia
▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhus[L]es mesures d’hygiène associées à l’utilisation d’insecticides, puis à l’antibiothérapie ont fait disparaître et même oublier l’importance et la gravité qu’avait le typhus avant les années 1950.
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Fenced out: Los Angeles businesses find new way to keep away homeless | Society | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/24/where-the-sidewalk-ends-businesses-keep-out-homeless-with-fences
he day the fence arrived, Gabe was sitting next to his tent, right at the heart of Los Angeles’ Skid Row. It was a chain link fence – about six feet tall – placed at the edge of the sidewalk, where it neatly enclosed Gabe, his neighbors, and the tented homes they have made for themselves on the streets of what is sometimes called the homeless capital of the country.
“They put the whole sidewalk inside the fence,” said Gabe, an older black man with kind eyes and a disarming demeanor who has lived on the streets of Skid Row for about five years. He was scaling a fish over a red plastic cooler as he talked. “I felt like we were in prison on the sidewalk. It felt like we were in prison and could get out, but still in prison, you know what I mean?”
#mur #barrière #los_angeles #pauvreté #sdf #discrimination #séparation
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J’y étais en avril... Il y avait là un quartier de... 12 îlots (?) dont les trottoirs étaient intégralement occupés par des tentes réelles ou de fortune. Traversée en voiture avec un proche qui nous montrait « la ville » comme elle est. Un kilomètre plus loin, le site des sports : stade de basket qui se transforme en stade de hockey sur glace en 8 heures. Frissons. Sous 23°C en avril.
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#Google_Maps Says ‘the East Cut’ Is a Real Place. Locals Aren’t So Sure.
For decades, the district south of downtown and alongside #San_Francisco Bay here was known as either #Rincon_Hill, #South_Beach or #South_of_Market. This spring, it was suddenly rebranded on Google Maps to a name few had heard: the #East_Cut.
The peculiar moniker immediately spread digitally, from hotel sites to dating apps to Uber, which all use Google’s map data. The name soon spilled over into the physical world, too. Real-estate listings beckoned prospective tenants to the East Cut. And news organizations referred to the vicinity by that term.
“It’s degrading to the reputation of our area,” said Tad Bogdan, who has lived in the neighborhood for 14 years. In a survey of 271 neighbors that he organized recently, he said, 90 percent disliked the name.
The swift rebranding of the roughly 170-year-old district is just one example of how Google Maps has now become the primary arbiter of place names. With decisions made by a few Google cartographers, the identity of a city, town or neighborhood can be reshaped, illustrating the outsize influence that Silicon Valley increasingly has in the real world.
The #Detroit neighborhood now regularly called #Fishkorn (pronounced FISH-korn), but previously known as #Fiskhorn (pronounced FISK-horn)? That was because of Google Maps. #Midtown_South_Central in #Manhattan? That was also given life by Google Maps.
Yet how Google arrives at its names in maps is often mysterious. The company declined to detail how some place names came about, though some appear to have resulted from mistakes by researchers, rebrandings by real estate agents — or just outright fiction.
In #Los_Angeles, Jeffrey Schneider, a longtime architect in the #Silver_Lake_area, said he recently began calling the hill he lived on #Silver_Lake_Heights in ads for his rental apartment downstairs, partly as a joke. Last year, Silver Lake Heights also appeared on Google Maps.
“Now for every real-estate listing in this neighborhood, they refer to it,” he said. “You see a name like that on a map and you believe it.”
Before the internet era, neighborhood names developed via word of mouth, newspaper articles and physical maps that were released periodically. But Google Maps, which debuted in 2005, is updated continuously and delivered to more than one billion people on their devices. Google also feeds map data to thousands of websites and apps, magnifying its influence.
In May, more than 63 percent of people who accessed a map on a smartphone or tablet used Google Maps, versus 19.4 percent for the Chinese internet giant Alibaba’s maps and 5.5 percent for Apple Maps, according to comScore, which tracks web traffic.
Google said it created its maps from third-party data, public sources, satellites and, often most important, users. People can submit changes, which are reviewed by Google employees. A Google spokeswoman declined further comment.
Yet some submissions are ruled upon by people with little local knowledge of a place, such as contractors in India, said one former Google Maps employee, who declined to be named because he was not authorized to speak publicly. Other users with a history of accurate changes said their updates to maps take effect instantly.
Many of Google’s decisions have far-reaching consequences, with the maps driving increased traffic to quiet neighborhoods and once almost provoking an international incident in 2010 after it misrepresented the boundary between Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
The service has also disseminated place names that are just plain puzzling. In #New_York, #Vinegar_Hill_Heights, #Midtown_South_Central (now #NoMad), #BoCoCa (for the area between Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens), and #Rambo (Right Around the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) have appeared on and off in Google Maps.
Matthew Hyland, co-owner of New York’s Emily and Emmy Squared pizzerias, who polices Google Maps in his spare time, said he considered those all made-up names, some of which he deleted from the map. Other obscure neighborhood names gain traction because of Google’s endorsement, he said. Someone once told him they lived in Stuyvesant Heights, “and then I looked at Google Maps and it was there. And I was like, ‘What? No. Come on,’” he said.
In Detroit, some residents have been baffled by Google’s map of their city, which is blanketed with neighborhood monikers like NW Goldberg, Fishkorn and the Eye. Those names have been on Google Maps since at least 2012.
Timothy Boscarino, a Detroit city planner, traced Google’s use of those names to a map posted online around 2002 by a few locals. Google almost identically copied that map’s neighborhoods and boundaries, he said — down to its typos. One result was that Google transposed the k and h for the district known as Fiskhorn, making it Fishkorn.
A former Detroit city planner, Arthur Mullen, said he created the 2002 map as a side project and was surprised his typos were now distributed widely. He said he used old books and his local knowledge to make the map, approximating boundaries at times and inserting names with tenuous connections to neighborhoods, hoping to draw feedback.
“I shouldn’t be making a mistake and 20 years later people are having to live with it,” Mr. Mullen said.
He admitted some of his names were questionable, such as the Eye, a 60-block patch next to a cemetery on Detroit’s outskirts. He said he thought he spotted the name in a document, but was unsure which one. “Do I have my research materials from doing this 18 years ago? No,” he said.
Now, local real-estate listings, food-delivery sites and locksmith ads use Fishkorn and the Eye. Erik Belcarz, an optometrist from nearby Novi, Mich., named his new publishing start-up Fishkorn this year after seeing the name on Google Maps.
“It rolls off the tongue,” he said.
Detroit officials recently canvassed the community to make an official map of neighborhoods. That exercise fixed some errors, like Fiskhorn (though Fishkorn remains on Google Maps). But for many districts where residents were unsure of the history, authorities relied largely on Google. The Eye and others are now part of that official map.
In San Francisco, the East Cut name originated from a neighborhood nonprofit group that residents voted to create in 2015 to clean and secure the area. The nonprofit paid $68,000 to a “brand experience design company” to rebrand the district.
Andrew Robinson, executive director of the nonprofit, now called the East Cut Community Benefit District (and previously the Greater Rincon Hill Community Benefit District), said the group’s board rejected names like Grand Narrows and Central Hub. Instead they chose the East Cut, partly because it referenced an 1869 construction project to cut through nearby Rincon Hill. The nonprofit then paid for streetlight banners and outfitted street cleaners with East Cut apparel.
But it wasn’t until Google Maps adopted the name this spring that it got attention — and mockery.
“The East Cut sounds like a 17 dollar sandwich,” Menotti Minutillo, an Uber engineer who works on the neighborhood’s border, said on Twitter in May.
Mr. Robinson said his team asked Google to add the East Cut to its maps. A Google spokeswoman said employees manually inserted the name after verifying it through public sources. The company’s San Francisco offices are in the neighborhood (as is The New York Times bureau), and one of the East Cut nonprofit’s board members is a Google employee.
Google Maps has also validated other little-known San Francisco neighborhoods. Balboa Hollow, a roughly 50-block district north of Golden Gate Park, trumpets on its website that it is a distinct neighborhood. Its proof? Google Maps.
“Don’t believe us?” its website asks. “Well, we’re on the internet; so we must be real.”
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Un bel avenir pour le tramway de L.A. ... en 2017 ...Celebrating Streetcar Progress in 2016, Looking Ahead to 2017
It’s been an extraordinary year for LA Streetcar, with progress across the board. We wanted to take a moment to reflect on that progress and thank you all for your support.
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http://streetcar.la/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Streetcar-Splash1-1280x600.png INTRODUCING: THE LOS ANGELES STREETCAR!
For the past 15 years, downtown LA has led the way in helping Angelenos to reimagine their built environment. Together, we’re building a city that is more connected, active, fun, and sustainable than ever before, and the Los Angeles Streetcar is the next step along that path. Downtown LA is the cultural and economic hub of our region, and we think that once you get here it shouldn’t be quite so tough to get from one place to the next.When the LA Streetcar arrives, you can ditch your car and rely on a quick, comfortable ride to wherever you’re headed. Whether it’s Grand Park or Grand Central Market, Ace Hotel or the JW Marriott, one of Broadway’s beautiful historic theaters, or one of countless restaurants, entertainment venues, hotels, offices, modern homes, and historic lofts—we’ll have you covered. No more hunting for parking. Safer, cleaner streets. And most of all, better access to all that downtown has to offer. That’s the future we envision; join us for the ride, won’t you?
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Skid Row Downtown Los Angeles Christmas Day 2017
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8fsfwo6R-Y
Une balade dans les rues de L.A. avec des entretiens peu communsDowntown Los Angeles - by car
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7HozzSGakA
Une visite du même quartier qui montre davantage de rues avec leurs SDF.California Homeless Problem - by bike
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvCGtxeknSgWhy is liberal California the poverty capital of America ? - LA Times
▻http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-jackson-california-poverty-20180114-story.html
▻http://www.trbimg.com/img-5a5d2722/turbine/la-oe-jackson-california-poverty-20180114Hillary Clinton in Estonia - Trumpland (2016) Michael Moore
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Enfin un discours de Michael Moore qui explique comment 20 millions d’américains sont morts des conséquences de la politique de santé dans son pays.#USA #pauvreté #santé #SDF #Californie #Los_Angeles
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#Los_Angeles Webography… Wayfarers All | Eric Brightwell
▻https://ericbrightwell.com/2016/02/20/los-angeles-webography-wayfarers-allAmongst the many resources available pertaining to Los Angeles are websites, blogs, podcasts, and other online-only resources. I read many of them regularly, some too much, and almost all of them occasionally. For my own use and for the use of others (especially explorers and adventurers) I’ve here compiled what I hope is as conclusive a webography (or “webliography”) of Los Angeles sources. Magazines, books, and other print media will be included in the Los Angeles Bibliography.
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Waldoscope : Rancho Dominguez - Drift Day 5 / Track Rat
▻http://waldoscope.blogspot.com/2017/10/rancho-dominguez-drift-day-5-track-rat.html
Il faut suivre cette série photo remarquable
Rancho Dominguez - Drift Day 5 / Track Rat
#dérive #paysage #landscape #Los_Angeles #psychogéographie, #train #Rancho_Dominguez #signalétique #panneaux #urban_matter #paysage_urbains #urbanscape
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#Los_Angeles : les rangs des ex-soldats #sans-abris grossissent
« Je n’avais pas fait beaucoup d’études alors j’ai tiré au fusil », raconte-t-il. « Des gens mourraient dans l’explosion de grenades, on en voyait se faire abattre (...) C’était horrible ».
Son retour à la vie civile a été brutal. « Je n’ai jamais eu de travail », explique péniblement celui qui dit avoir du mal à « réfléchir comme il faut ».
S’il a par le passé « habité chez des gens », il a rapidement été emporté dans la même spirale que tant d’anciens combattants américains : #traumatismes psychologiques, manque de qualifications, #chômage, #alcoolisme, #drogue, #isolement_social et familial, #prison, puis... la rue.
▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/depeche/los-angeles-les-rangs-des-ex-soldats-sans-abris-grossissent.a
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Glossaire.dde : Le “Trou Noir” de la postmodernité
▻http://www.dedefensa.org/article/glossairedde-le-trou-noir-de-la-postmoderniteGlossaire.dde : Le “Trou Noir” de la postmodernité
13 mai 2017 – On vient de “fêter” l’anniversaire d’un quart de siècle des fameuses émeutes de los Angeles, qui durèrent six-sept jours, du 29 avril au 5-6 mai 1992, qui firent 55 morts, des centaines de blessés, des milliers d’arrestations, etc., qui mirent certains quartiers de cette ville dans un état de siège proche de l’état de guerre, avec intervention de la Garde Nationale. Cet événement propose une marque symbolique essentielle d’une période qui constitue pour nous ce que nous nommerons “le Trou Noir de la postmodernité”, à mettre en regard avec le “Trou Noir du XXème Siècle“ figurant égaiement dans Glossaire.dde. à la date du 21 janvier 2016.
C’est une marque symbolique mais c’est également bien plus que cela. Notre observation et l’interprétation que (...)
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À la suite d’une altercation avec les forces policières, des émeutes raciales éclatent dans Watts, un quartier majoritairement noir de #Los_Angeles. Les six jours de #violence qui suivent se soldent par un bilan désolant : 35 morts, plus de 1 100 blessés et des dégâts matériels évalués à 35 millions de dollars.
▻http://perspective.usherbrooke.ca/bilan/servlet/BMEve?codeEve=492
Discours du président des États-Unis à la suite des
#émeutes_de_watts.
▻http://perspective.usherbrooke.ca/bilan/servlet/BMDictionnaire?iddictionnaire=1743Voici un film politique rare et très peu connu que les éditions Le Chat Qui Fume en association avec Foxy Bronx (fanzine et site) viennent d’exhumer de derrière les fagots. Cette rareté accuse bien sûr les défauts du genre #blaxploitation (budget limité, tournage à l’arraché, acteurs amateurs) accentué par le fait que le film n’a pas été remasterisé pour l’occasion. Il n’empêche, The Final Comedown est un film qu’il faut absolument voir pour son inventivité mais aussi parce qu’il demeure assurément, aux côtés de Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song de Van Peebles (1971) et de The Spook Who Sat by the Door de Dixon (1973), le plus précieux témoignage d’une époque au cours de laquelle des Afro-américains ont pris les armes pour en finir avec l’oppression raciste.
▻http://lesensdesimages.com/2013/09/28/emeute-a-los-angeles-doscar-williams-blaxploitation-et-politique
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ScHoolboy Q - Tookie Knows II : Part (2) - YouTube
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Traffic déchire tout ! L’âpreté de son flow, son phrasé, je ne sais pas mais c’est… époustouflant ! Et la boucle de piano, c’est hypnotique. Scotchée ! -
Unbuilt Los Angeles: the city that might have been – in pictures | Cities | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2017/feb/09/unbuilt-los-angeles-city-might-have-been-in-picturesLos Angeles Civic Center – 1925 – Lloyd Wright
Wright’s proposal, submitted to the Los Angeles Times in 1925, consisted of terraced walkways flanked by rows of Mayan Revival government buildings. City Hall would sit at the top of this temple-like complex, while sunken roads, subterranean train tunnels, and rooftop helipads would manage movement in and out of the city. Anaïs Nin, who visited Wright’s studio in the late 1940s, wrote in her diary: ‘I saw [his] plans for LA. It could have been the most beautiful city in the world.’ All images courtesy of Metropolis Books
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A week in the life of P-22, the big cat who shares Griffith Park with millions of people - Los Angeles Times
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A Los Angeles, des photos de guerre et des bijoux guerriers
▻http://expo-photo.blog.lemonde.fr/2013/04/27/a-los-angeles-des-photos-de-guerre-et-des-bijoux-guerriers/#xtor=RSS-32280322La grande exposition sur la guerre et la #photographie, résultat d’un travail de fond mené pendant plusieurs années par la conservatrice Anne Tucker, fait un arrêt décevant à Los Angeles, au Annenberg Space for Photography. Il faut dire que cette … Continuer la lecture →
#photographie ;_guerre ;_los_angeles ;_tucson
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A Los Angeles, Xavier Veilhan dans la maison du « Big Lebowski »
▻http://expo-photo.blog.lemonde.fr/2013/04/27/a-los-angeles-xavier-veilhan-dans-la-maison-du-big-lebowski/#xtor=RSS-32280322C’est une maison célèbre mais cachée, enfouie dans la nature luxuriante, perchée dans les collines du quartier chic de Berverly Hills, tout au bout d’une route qui serpente entre les palmiers de Los Angeles. L’architecte John Lautner, en 1963, a … Continuer la lecture →
#photographie #xavier_veilhan ;_architecture ;_los_angeles
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Baumhaus-Kinder von Berlin-Friedenau: Wir werden zwangsgeräumt! | Berliner-Kurier.de
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Le jour de la fête nationale on apprend des nouvelles sur deux maisons. Celle de l’avenir sera détruite alors qu’on investivra des millions dans une autre qui représente le passé.Der Kampf um das Baumhaus der Kinder von Ivos Piacentini wird immer bizarrer: Weil der Bau laut Bezirksamt rechtswidrig ist, sollte die Baumhütte weg (KURIER berichtete). Doch das Umweltamt schoss quer – die Hütte durfte bleiben, bis jetzt. Nun soll zwangsgeräumt werden.
Stadtrat Daniel Krüger gegen Baumhaus Samoa | Stadtrat Daniel Krüger, Einzelkämpfer gegen Kinderspiel- und Baumhäuser
▻http://baumhaus-samoa.deThomas-Mann-Villa in Los Angeles: Die Geburtsstätte des „Doktor Faustus“ - Kultur - Tagesspiegel
▻http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/thomas-mann-villa-in-los-angeles-die-geburtsstaette-des-doktor-faustus/14632732.htmlBundesaußenminister Frank-Walter Steinmeier stellte am Donnerstag im Bundestag die Rettung der Villa in Aussicht. Deutschland stehe im amerikanischen Bieterverfahren unter den Kaufinteressenten an erster Stelle, so der SPD-Politiker, der sich ausdrücklich bei Kulturstaatsministerin Monika Grütters für ihr Engagement bedankte. Noch gehört die Villa nicht dem Bund, aber die Chancen stehen gut.
Das schönste Haus der MannsWer das seltene Glück hatte, das Haus der Manns einmal von innen zu sehen, der konnte nur darüber staunen, dass der elegant-moderne Entwurf des Architekten Davidson im Bauhausstil Thomas Mann damals überzeugt hatte. Es war ein Bau auf Bestellung: Der 1941 von Princeton an die Westküste gezogene Nobelpreisträger hatte ihn in Auftrag gegeben. Katia Mann hielt das Anwesen am San Remo Drive – die „San Remi“, wie man in der Familie sagte (in München hatte man die Villa in der Poschingerstraße nur „Poschi“ genannt) – für das schönste Haus, das die Manns je bewohnten.
#Allemagne #Berlin #Friedenau #USA #Los_Angeles #émigration #littérature #histoire
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Les employés d’un hôtel géré par #Natixis saisissent l’OCDE
▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/economie/140916/les-employes-dun-hotel-gere-par-natixis-saisissent-locdeLes salariés américains du Westin Long Beach, à #Los_Angeles, dénoncent des pratiques contraires au droit du travail et des entraves à l’implantation d’un syndicat. Ils espèrent des réponses de la banque française, dont une filiale gère l’établissement, mais qui reste mutique.
#Economie #Californie #grève #Hotel #social
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#Effondrement : état de #panique à l’aéroport de #Los_Angeles, un #Zorro arrêté.
L’état de panique peut à la rigueur se comprendre lorsqu’il est causé par une cause véritablement justifiée : un vrai attentat, un incendie dans un lieu public… Mais que dire lorsqu’il provient de notre propre #paranoïa enflammée par de vagues rumeurs ?L’état de panique collectif a ceci de terrible qu’il se répand dans les consciences et anesthésie la raison et la réflexion. L’état de panique a des conséquences souvent meurtrières pour ceux-là mêmes qui en sont saisis, destructrices lorsque cet état devient chronique, ridicules lorsque les vents de panique se dissipent quelque peu, qu’on retrouve ses bagages abandonnés aux quatre coins d’un #aéroport où la #police n’a arrêté en tout et pour tout qu’un homme en tenue de Zorro avec une épée en plastique, et passablement éméché.
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Moving pictures reveal America’s homeless capital in Los Angeles | Daily Mail Online
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http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/04/15/12/33333CFB00000578-0-image-a-18_1460719358767.jpg The other side of Tinseltown: Moving pictures show how ’riverside living’ has a different meaning in America’s homeless capital
There are an estimated 44,000 homeless people living in Los Angeles according to a recent survey into the problem
Hundreds risk their lives by living on the bed of the Los Angeles River or in an equally-dangerous storm drain
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Domestic Violence in Los Angeles
▻http://lacontroller.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=b246d90a43574e728e1f8725f00b3c63On a typical day, 131 people call the City of Los Angeles’ 911 number for help because of domestic violence. In the course of a year, the City receives about 48,000 such calls.
Domestic violence is a City-wide scourge that does not respect income, council district boundaries, or population densities, as readers can see for themselves on these maps.
#violence_conjugale #violence_domestique #los_angeles #états-unis #violence
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How #Los_Angeles Is Becoming a ‘Third World’ City - The New York Times
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/06/opinion/welcome-to-hooverville-california.htmlIts center is not in East Los Angeles, or any other Latino neighborhood; nor in our recently christened “Little Bangladesh.” The third world exists everywhere here — in the spread of inequality.
The deepening gap between rich and poor is both a sociological fact and a state of mind. The cost of housing is up dramatically, and so is homelessness.
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« Why People Keep Trying to Erase the Hollywood Sign From Google Maps »
▻http://gizmodo.com/why-people-keep-trying-to-erase-the-hollywood-sign-from-1658084644The #Hollywood Sign might be one of the most recognizable things on Earth. In #Los_Angeles, it’s also one of the most visible. You can see it from a plane as you glide into LAX. You can see it from a car as you drive up the 101 freeway. But a group of people who live near the sign are trying to hide it, even as it looms in the hills, in plain sight. By removing it from #Google_Maps.
(...) In response to the vitriol, and because I myself had witnessed the crowds firsthand, I wrote what I thought was a very helpful bit of service journalism on my blog, “The best way to see the Hollywood sign.” In my piece, I argue that driving through the twisty-turny streets of Beachwood Canyon is actually not the best way to snuggle up to the sign. I very clearly direct would-be visitors to the address of a small public park with an excellent view of the famous icon, from which you can hike up to the sign.
Three years later my story remains one of the top hits if you go searching online for the best way to see the Hollywood Sign, and every few weeks I still get emails from people sharing the photos they took from the location and thanking me profusely for posting the information on my blog.
Why? Because if you try to find out how to actually get to the Hollywood Sign by asking Google Maps, you won’t get anywhere near it.
(...) To find out how this happened, I had a very nice conversation with Betsy Isroelit from the Hollywood Sign Trust, a nonprofit which protects and maintains the sign, and has become in many ways the keeper of the sign’s public interests.
She admits that there was once a goal to “hide” the sign online completely, but it was deemed impossible. “At one point we were successful in getting Google to take the address down, but it appears so many other places like the city council offices and the city of LA that they put it back up.”
In the end, it was Councilmember LaBonge who found a different solution. Working closely with Google and the GPS company Garmin, he was able to convince them to change the directions to the sign. Google did not respond to my requests for comment, but Carly Hysell from Garmin confirmed to me that the change was made in their spring 2012 map release. Update: Google’s Gina Scigliano confirmed to me on November 24 that although the location of the sign itself has remained the same, the driving directions were changed from directing drivers to the intersection of Ledgewood and Mulholland Hwy to the Griffith Observatory location in November of 2014.
“The point of interest right at the sign was removed and ’sign view’ points of interest on the ground were added, but they aren’t at the sign itself,” says Hysell. Now there are actually two places that drivers might be directed: Griffith Observatory, and puzzlingly, the viewing platform at the Hollywood & Highland Center, which is about four miles away on busy Hollywood Boulevard.
#cartographie_mensongère (on pourrait arguer qu’elle l’est toujours un peu, parce que subjective - mais ici cela relève de la #censure pleinement assumée)
sinon, si on y tient, on pourra couper le GPS et le smartphone, et ouvrir une #carte (papier) de randonnée, et se faire un avis soi-même sur le chemin à prendre
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LAPD Shouted ’Shoot Him’ Before Killing Unarmed, Mentally Ill Black Man: Witness
▻http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/13/lapd-suggests-mentally-il_0_n_5675782.html
#violences_policieres #police_violence #usa #los_angeles
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