Architect/Industrial Designer John Burnett Parkin is associated with Los Angeles.
๐บ๐ธ Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often abbreviated as L.A., is the largest city in California. Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, Hollywood entertainment industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The City of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California, adjacent to the Pacific Ocean, and extends through the Santa Monica Mountains and into the San Fernando Valley, covering a total of about 469 square miles (1,210ย kmยฒ). It is the seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States.
Home to the Chumash and Tongva indigenous peoples, the area that became Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodrรญguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542. The discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The city was further expanded with the completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, which delivers water from Eastern California.
Los Angeles has a diverse and robust economy, and hosts businesses in a broad range of professional and cultural fields. It also has the busiest container port in the Americas. In 2018, the Los Angeles metropolitan area had a gross metropolitan product of over $1.0ย trillion, making it the city with the third-largest GDP in the world, after Tokyo and New York City. Los Angeles hosted the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics and will host the 2028 Summer Olympics.
1Economy The economy of Los Angeles is driven by international trade, entertainment (television, motion pictures, video games, music recording, and production), aerospace, technology, petroleum, fashion, apparel, and tourism. Other significant industries include finance, telecommunications, law, healthcare, and transportation. In the 2017 Global Financial Centres Index, Los Angeles was ranked as having the 19th most competitive financial centre in the world, and sixth most competitive in the United States (after New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, and Washington, D.C.).
One of the five major film studios, Paramount Pictures, is within the city limits, its location being part of the so-called "Thirty-Mile Zone" of entertainment headquarters in Southern California.
Los Angeles is the largest manufacturing centre in the United States. The contiguous ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach together comprise the busiest port in the United States by some measures and the fifth-busiest port in the world, vital to trade within the Pacific Rim.
The Department of Cannabis Regulation enforces cannabis legislation after the legalisation of the sale and distribution of cannabis in 2016. As of October 2019, more than 300 existing cannabis businesses (both retailers and their suppliers) have been granted approval to operate in what is considered the nation's largest market.
As of 2018, Los Angeles is home to three Fortune 500 companies: AECOM, CBRE Group, and Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co.
The Largest Non-Government Employers in Los Angeles County include: 1 Kaiser Permanente; 2 University of Southern California; 3 Northrop Grumman Corp.; 4 Providence Health and Services Southern California; 5 Target Corp.; 6 Ralphs /Food 4 Less (Kroger Co. Division); 7 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; 8 Walt Disney Co.; 9 Allied Universal; 10 NBC Universal.
1Los Angeles is rated Alpha by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) which evaluates and ranks the relationships between world cities in the context of globalisation. Alpha level cities are linked to major economic states and regions and into the world economy.
Los Angeles is the #7 city in the world according to the Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI) which evaluates and ranks the competitiveness of the major financial centres of the world according to a wide range of criteria โ Human Capital, Business, Finance, Infrastructure and Reputation.
Los Angeles is the #12 city in the world according to the Global Power City Index (GPCI) which evaluates and ranks the major cities of the world according to their magnetism, or their comprehensive power to attract people, capital, and enterprises from around the world. It does so through measuring six key functions: Economy, Research and Development, Cultural Interaction, Liveability, Environment, and Accessibility.
Los Angeles is ranked #9 by the Global Urban Competitiveness Report (GUCR) which evaluates and ranks world cities in the context of economic competitiveness. Los Angeles has a population of over 3,979,576 people. Los Angeles also forms the centre of the wider Los Angeles metropolitan area which has a population of over 13,310,447 people. Los Angeles is the #51 hipster city in the world, with a hipster score of 5.4331 according to the Hipster Index which evaluates and ranks the major cities of the world according to the number of vegan eateries, coffee shops, tattoo studios, vintage boutiques, and record stores. Los Angeles is ranked #4 for startups with a score of 58.441.
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Twin Towns, Sister Cities Los Angeles has links with:
๐ฒ๐ฝ รlvaro Obregรณn, Mexico ๐ฎ๐ฑ Ashdod, Israel ๐ฌ๐ท Athens, Greece ๐ณ๐ฟ Auckland, New Zealand ๐น๐ท Bayburt, Turkey ๐ฑ๐ง Beirut, Lebanon ๐ฉ๐ช Berlin, Germany ๐ซ๐ท Bordeaux, France ๐ฐ๐ท Busan, South Korea ๐ฟ๐ฆ Cape Town, South Africa ๐ซ๐ท Cenon, France ๐จ๐ณ Dalian, China ๐ถ๐ฆ Doha, Qatar ๐ฐ๐ท Dongdaemun, South Korea ๐ฎ๐ฑ Eilat, Israel ๐ต๐ฐ Faisalabad, Pakistan ๐ช๐ฌ Giza, Egypt ๐จ๐ณ Guangzhou, China ๐ฎ๐น Ischia, Italy ๐ฎ๐ฉ Jakarta, Indonesia ๐ฑ๐น Kaunas, Lithuania ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ London, England ๐ฟ๐ฒ Lusaka, Zambia ๐ต๐ญ Makati, Philippines ๐ณ๐ฎ Managua, Nicaragua ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Manchester, England ๐ฆ๐บ Melbourne, Australia ๐ฒ๐ฝ Mexico City, Mexico ๐ฎ๐ณ Mumbai, India ๐ฏ๐ต Nagoya, Japan ๐จ๐ณ Nansha District, China ๐จ๐ด Neiva, Colombia ๐น๐ผ New Taipei City, Taiwan ๐ท๐บ Saint Petersburg, Russia ๐ง๐ท Salvador, Brazil ๐ธ๐ป San Salvador, El Salvador ๐ญ๐ท Split, Croatia ๐น๐ผ Taipei, Taiwan ๐ฎ๐ท Tehran, Iran ๐ฎ๐ฑ Tel Aviv, Israel ๐จ๐ฆ Vancouver, Canada ๐ฆ๐ฒ Yerevan, Armenia ๐ต๐ฑ ลรณdลบ, PolandArchitect/Industrial Designer John Burnett Parkin is associated with Los Angeles.
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ ๐บ๐ธ Architect Gordon Bernie Kaufmann is associated with Los Angeles. He is best known for the architectural styling of the Hoover Dam near Boulder, Colorado (1931-36).
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ ๐บ๐ธ Architect Ernest Albert Coxhead is associated with Los Angeles. In 1885 he was awarded the RIBA Silver Medal for Measured Drawing.
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Architect Frank Howard Chantrill is associated with Los Angeles. He was a Member of the Society of Architects (MSA).
๐ฟ๐ฆ Mitchells Plain 34.051
๐บ๐ธ Baldwin Park 34.067
๐บ๐ธ West Covina 34.05
๐บ๐ธ East Los Angeles 34.033
๐บ๐ธ Monterey Park 34.033
๐บ๐ธ Long Beach -118.181
๐บ๐ธ East Los Angeles -118.167
๐บ๐ธ Monterey Park -118.133
Locations Near: Los Angeles -118.25,34.05
๐บ๐ธ Glendale -118.25,34.133 d: 9.3
๐บ๐ธ East Los Angeles -118.167,34.033 d: 7.9
๐บ๐ธ Hollywood -118.329,34.1 d: 9.2
๐บ๐ธ Alhambra -118.133,34.067 d: 10.9
๐บ๐ธ Monterey Park -118.133,34.033 d: 10.9
๐บ๐ธ Inglewood -118.353,33.962 d: 13.7
๐บ๐ธ Lynwood -118.2,33.917 d: 15.5
๐บ๐ธ Burbank -118.308,34.182 d: 15.6
Antipodal to: Los Angeles 61.75,-34.05
๐ซ๐ท Saint-Pierre 55.478,-21.342 d: 18473.9
๐ซ๐ท Le Tampon 55.515,-21.278 d: 18468.8
๐ฒ๐บ Mahรฉbourg 57.7,-20.407 d: 18446.5
๐ซ๐ท Rรฉunion 55.532,-21.133 d: 18454.5
๐ซ๐ท Saint-Benoรฎt 55.713,-21.034 d: 18451.1
๐ฒ๐บ Curepipe 57.517,-20.317 d: 18432.1
๐ฒ๐บ Vacoas-Phoenix 57.493,-20.3 d: 18429.7
๐ฒ๐บ Centre de Flacq 57.718,-20.2 d: 18424.6
๐ฒ๐บ Quatre Bornes 57.479,-20.266 d: 18425.7
๐ฒ๐บ Beau Bassin-Rose Hill 57.471,-20.235 d: 18422.1