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• Agoura HillsAgoura Hills incorporated a year after neighboring Westlake Village, driven largely by residents' frustration with the county allowing residential development they could not control, the same sentiment that led Calabasas to incorporate in 1991.
• AlhambraAlhambra was incorporated on July 11, 1903, not far from where the San Gabriel Mission had been founded in 1771 as part of Spain's colonization of Alta California.
• ArcadiaArcadia takes its name from the region of Arcadia in Greece, a naming choice that had nothing to do with the ranch land the city was later built on.
• Beverly GroveBeverly Grove sits between the Fairfax District and Beverly Hills on a street grid of houses and low apartment buildings built up through the mid-20th century.
• BeverlywoodBeverlywood was developed in 1940 by Walter H. Leimert, the same builder behind the Leimert Park neighborhood elsewhere in the city.
• BradburyBradbury has three distinct sections, from the gated 5-acre-minimum Bradbury Estates to an ungated area with lots as small as 7,500 square feet, so estate-sized and modest lots sit inside the same small city.
• BurbankBurbank is named for David Burbank, who established a sheep ranch on the land in 1867, decades before it became the built-up city it is today.
• Canoga ParkCanoga Park started as the town of Owensmouth, founded in 1912 on former wheat-farming land, and was renamed Canoga Park in 1931 after it was annexed by Los Angeles.
• CarthayCarthay is anchored by the Carthay Circle area, developed in the 1920s with Spanish Colonial Revival houses that still define much of the neighborhood's streets today.
• Century CityCentury City was built on the former backlot of 20th Century Fox, with its first office building opening in 1963 on land that had been a working film studio just years before.
• ChatsworthChatsworth's main route through the hills was originally called El Camino Nuevo before it became Chatsworth Grade Road and, in 1917, was rebuilt as the Santa Susana Pass Road.
• Cheviot HillsCheviot Hills was founded in 1924 between the MGM and Fox studio lots, and its most affluent section, Monte Mar Vista, was developed later, between 1926 and 1940.
• Culver CityCulver City was founded on the former Rancho La Ballona and Rancho Rincon de los Bueyes land grants and was incorporated in 1917 by its namesake developer, Harry Culver.
• Del ReyDel Rey sits between Culver City and Marina del Rey on land subdivided during the same early-20th-century Westside building push that shaped its neighbors.
• Echo ParkEcho Park is built around the city's oldest park, founded in 1886, and its hillside streets include private gated enclaves like Hathaway Estates that grew out of resistance to an earlier freeway route.
• El SegundoEl Segundo, on Santa Monica Bay, was incorporated on January 18, 1917, and developer Peck also built out neighboring El Porto around the same period.
• EncinoEncino's Encino Park was founded around 1937, part of the same wave of valley development that filled the area with houses and small parks through the late 1930s.
• FairfaxThe Fairfax District grew up as a commercial and residential strip along Wilshire and Fairfax that developer A.W. Ross built to rival downtown Los Angeles as a shopping destination.
• GlendaleGlendale officially incorporated in 1906 and today borders Pasadena, Burbank and several communities that Los Angeles itself later annexed, like Atwater Village and Eagle Rock.
• Granada HillsGranada Hills was founded in 1926 simply as "Granada," with the "Hills" added to the name fifteen years later.
• Hermosa BeachHermosa Beach became the nineteenth incorporated city in Los Angeles County on January 14, 1907, one of the earliest of the South Bay beach cities to formally organize.
• Hidden HillsHidden Hills is a gated city, designed and developed as a single community in the 1950s rather than pieced together lot by lot over time.
• HollywoodHollywood was incorporated as its own municipality in November 1903, well before it was folded into the city of Los Angeles, and buildings like the 1928 El Cabrillo date from that separate early city era.
• Hollywood / Central LAHollywood was its own incorporated municipality starting in 1903, before it was annexed into the city of Los Angeles, and its older houses and courtyard apartments date from that early-20th-century building era.
• Hollywood HillsThe Hollywood Hills climb the southern slope of the Santa Monica Mountains, where narrow, winding streets were cut into the hillside well after the flatter neighborhoods below were already built out.
• Hollywood Hills WestHollywood Hills West covers the canyons and ridgelines on the western side of the hills, including Laurel Canyon, where homes sit on steeper, more irregular lots than the grid below.
• KoreatownKoreatown's modern identity took shape when businessman Hi Duk Lee began building the district's Korean-owned commercial strip along Olympic Boulevard, filling older apartment buildings with new storefronts.
• La Cañada FlintridgeLa Cañada Flintridge was two separate communities, La Cañada and Flintridge, until they incorporated together as one city on December 8, 1976.
• Lake BalboaLake Balboa borders the 80-acre Anthony C. Beilenson Park inside the Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area, a flood-control basin that shapes the flat, low-lying streets around it.
• Larchmont VillageLarchmont Village was developed in the late 1800s, making its small commercial strip and surrounding houses among the older subdivisions in this part of the city.
• Laurel CanyonLaurel Canyon's remote, rugged terrain and closeness to the Hollywood studios made it a favored spot for building houses tucked into the hillside starting in the studio era.
• Los FelizLos Feliz takes its name from the Feliz family, who were granted Rancho Los Feliz in 1795, and the Rancho Los Feliz Adobe, built in 1853, is still the oldest building in the neighborhood.
• Malibu / Santa Monica MountainsA 2014 land-use plan approved by the California Coastal Commission and the county divides the Santa Monica Mountains into strictly protected private land and land that can be developed under detailed local rules.
• Mar VistaMar Vista became the 70th community annexed to the city of Los Angeles in 1927, and its Ocean Park Heights section grew up along the old Venice Short Line rail route built in 1902.
• Marina del ReyMarina del Rey grew up around a streetcar line built by the Redondo and Hermosa Beach Railroad, which had incorporated back in February 1901, long before the marina itself was developed.
• Mid-WilshireMid-Wilshire's street grid, laid out between Wilshire Boulevard and Pico Boulevard starting around 1910, was built to carry the commercial district developer A.W. Ross hoped would rival downtown.
• Miracle MileThe Miracle Mile takes its name from A.W. Ross's development of Wilshire Boulevard as a car-oriented commercial district, and its 1929 Art Deco buildings, like the one at 5209 Wilshire, are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
• MonroviaMonrovia incorporated on December 15, 1887, becoming the fourth city in Los Angeles County after Los Angeles, Santa Monica and Pasadena, and has since grown from a scatter of orange ranches to a city of more than 37,000.
• Mount OlympusMount Olympus was developed in the 1960s on land once known as "goatland" for its steep, scrub-covered slopes, around the same time as neighboring Trousdale Estates.
• Nichols CanyonNichols Canyon Road was built up as the main route through the hills west of Cahuenga Pass, and the houses along it follow that single winding street rather than a grid.
• North HollywoodNorth Hollywood grew from Isaac Van Nuys's dryland wheat-farming experiments, and the Lankershim School there was the first school founded anywhere in the San Fernando Valley.
• NorthridgeLand in Northridge changed hands as ranching and subdivision ventures for decades, and after the Southern Pacific Railroad laid tracks through in 1908, the area was resold and renamed Zelzah in 1910.
• PalmsPalms was founded in 1886 and became the oldest neighborhood annexed into the city of Los Angeles when it joined in 1915.
• Pico-RobertsonPico-Robertson, also mapped as South Robertson, sits on flat land between Beverly Hills and Culver City that was subdivided for houses well before the postwar Westside building boom reached the coast.
• Playa del ReyPlaya del Rey was marketed as the last stretch of undeveloped coastal sand dunes in the city of Los Angeles, and buildings like the 1922 Spanish Colonial Revival Dickinson & Gillespie building survive from that early sales push.
• Playa VistaPlaya Vista sits on the former Hughes Aircraft property, where the Spruce Goose was built in a hangar before being trucked to Long Beach Harbor for its only flight in 1947.
• Porter RanchPorter Ranch's newer housing tracts were built by Shapell Homes, a company whose founder worked with Los Angeles political figures to bring the development to what had been open ranch land.
• Rancho Palos VerdesRancho Palos Verdes incorporated on September 7, 1973, after residents voted for cityhood, and by the 2020 census the city held 42,287 people across its hillside lots.
• Rancho ParkRancho Park was developed in the 1920s as a middle-class area, and most of its housing stock is Spanish Colonial bungalows and ranch houses from that decade.
• Redondo BeachRedondo Beach's Rosecrans Avenue, a major South Bay street, is named for one of the city's early landowners, part of a street grid tied to the area's late-19th-century development.
• ResedaReseda was founded in 1912 and its central business district began developing around 1915, part of a wider Suburban Home Company plan that also laid out Van Nuys and Canoga Park.
• Rolling HillsRolling Hills is a gated community with private roads and three entry gates, and its single-story houses were built in the California ranch and Spanish hacienda styles associated with architect Wallace Neff.
• Rolling Hills EstatesRolling Hills Estates incorporated in 1957 on land once known as Rancho El Elastico, and it kept enough of that ranch character to still be laced with horse paths today.
• San Fernando ValleyThe San Fernando Valley holds several incorporated cities of its own, including Burbank, Calabasas, Glendale and Hidden Hills, alongside the large unincorporated stretch that belongs to the city of Los Angeles.
• San GabrielSan Gabriel was founded by the Spanish in 1771 when Junípero Serra established Mission San Gabriel Arcángel there, making it one of the oldest settled places in the San Gabriel Valley.
• San Gabriel ValleyThe valley takes its name from the San Gabriel Mission, founded in 1771 at the Whittier Narrows, and its oldest towns grew up around the mission lands long before the region's later subdivisions.
• SawtelleSawtelle grew up around the Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and was briefly its own incorporated city, from 1899 until it was absorbed by Los Angeles.
• Sherman OaksSherman Oaks was developed by Moses Hazeltine Sherman's company, which subdivided 1,000 acres of San Fernando Valley land into the tract that became the neighborhood.
• Sierra MadreSierra Madre held its first citywide election on February 2, 1907, with just 96 residents voting 71 to 25 to incorporate a town of about 500 people.
• Silver LakeSilver Lake takes its name from a Los Angeles Water Department reservoir built there in 1907, and its hillside houses were developed mostly in the 1920s and 1930s around that reservoir.
• South BayThe South Bay's beach cities, from El Segundo down through Torrance, were mostly founded and incorporated as separate small cities in the early 20th century rather than annexed into Los Angeles.
• South PasadenaSouth Pasadena split off and incorporated on March 2, 1888, with just over 500 residents, becoming the sixth municipality organized in Los Angeles County.
• Sunset StripBefore West Hollywood incorporated as a city in 1984, the Sunset Strip was an unincorporated stretch of Los Angeles County, which shaped how its older buildings were originally permitted.
• TarzanaTarzana takes its name from author Edgar Rice Burroughs, who subdivided and sold his ranch land for residential development, with some early parcels used as small farms.
• Temple CityTemple City sits near the original San Gabriel Mission site, and its central park along Las Tunas Drive was laid out by the developer who subdivided the surrounding lots.
• Toluca LakeToluca Lake was developed starting in 1923, when investors bought the land and built it out as "Toluca Lake Park."
• TopangaTopanga grew out of an artists' colony that its early residents founded without originally intending to build a permanent town in the canyon.
• TorranceTorrance was founded in October 1912 and incorporated in May 1921, a gap of nearly a decade between the initial development and the city's formal organization.
• Valley GlenValley Glen was carved out of neighboring valley communities and developed later than much of the surrounding San Fernando Valley, giving its housing stock a different, later-20th-century character.
• Valley VillageValley Village split off from North Hollywood as its own named neighborhood, part of the same San Fernando Valley subdivision wave that filled the area with single-family tracts.
• Van NuysVan Nuys was one of three San Fernando Valley towns, along with Reseda and Canoga Park, laid out by the Suburban Home Company, and its 1935 Spanish Colonial Revival post office survives from that early building period.
• VeniceVenice was founded in 1905 as its own seaside resort town by Abbot Kinney and stayed independent until the city of Los Angeles annexed it in 1926.
• West HillsWest Hills was part of the Rancho El Escorpión-Platt Ranch, which was not connected to the city of Los Angeles's water system until 1958 and stayed undeveloped for a few more years after that.
• West HollywoodWest Hollywood was incorporated as its own city only in 1984, sitting between the cities of Los Angeles and Beverly Hills and including the Sunset Strip.
• WestchesterWestchester's tract of inexpensive prefabricated single-family houses was developed by builder Fritz Burns on the site of a former hog farm near Manchester and Sepulveda.
• Westlake VillageWestlake Village became the 82nd municipality in Los Angeles County when it incorporated in 1981, taking its name from the master-planned community built around Westlake Lake.
• WestsideThe Westside is a Los Angeles Times "Mapping L.A." grouping of Century City, Westwood and more than a dozen other districts built up mostly in the early-to-mid 20th century as the city grew away from downtown.
• WestwoodWestwood was developed by the Janss Investment Company starting in the 1920s around the new University of California, Los Angeles campus, giving the neighborhood its grid of buildings from that single development era.
• Windsor SquareWindsor Square was laid out around a planned park meant to anchor family houses built in a countryside style, in what was then rural land roughly halfway between downtown and the coast.
• Woodland HillsWoodland Hills began as the town of Girard, founded in 1922 on nearly 2,900 acres, and was renamed only in 1945 after being incorporated into the city.