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Enormous giants loomed over the city of Los Angeles. Some were over nine stories tall. They were made of concrete, steel reinforcing bars, and glass. For decades they had dominated the view from the main boulevard of Hollywood Boulevard like some giant Roman coliseum. So when something did happen in Los Angeles, it had to make a big difference because these buildings were so prominent and ubiquitous; people had never seen anything quite like it before—and would never see again for many years to come. Just a few years after the world's attention was drawn to the City of Angels, those giants were demolished, leaving only a memory. In this book you will find out how these buildings came to be and how their destruction was one of the most important steps in the city's transformation from a comparatively sleepy town to a world-class metropolis whose name still rings with awe and respect around the globe. For dozens of years Los Angeles served as a symbol of America's dynamism and economic power—and it still does. But over just two or three decades, a great change came over this city—one that changed everything forever. This book will tell you why and how that change came about. It takes you on a journey that began, in the late 1970s, with a group of people who were driven by a single goal—to tear down huge structures that had been part of Los Angeles's past and could become the objects of its future.Part 1: The GiantsFirst-person accounts from prominent Angelenos, including Roger Ebert, Warren Beatty, and Mayor Tom Bradley The Los Angeles Times Building in downtown L.A. 1928-1957 by William M. Houser PhD. Part 2: The Battle for Bunker HillThe beginnings and impact of the movement to transform Bunker Hill and parts of Downtown Los Angeles from a run-down, decaying, inner-city slum into the cultural and financial capital of the West Coast. Innovative planning strategies were employed by city leaders which anticipated New Urbanism by several decades. The resulting revitalization brought a host of new public plazas, street-level cafes, boutique shops for distinctive fashions, upscale residential development featuring architecturally unique adaptive re-use of historic buildings, and a concentration of cultural institutions in a small area previously dominated by warehouses and commercial red-light districts. The Bunker Hill complex represents one of the most innovative urban-renewal efforts in contemporary urban studies and has been influenced by such notable urbanists as Jane Jacobs, Richard Sennett and Andres Duany. The now well known Los Angeles Times Building is now home to the Los Angeles Times, now named the "USA Today".Part 3: City of Dreams to City of RosieA history of downtown and its transformation from a once prominent but now decaying factory zone to a dynamic creative mecca for artists and architects. The office towers were gone; or perhaps they never existed. The headquarters of Bank America was gone; or perhaps it never existed at all. cfa1e77820
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