
Preserving the LA story, one block at a time
Clip: 5/12/2014 | 7m 14s
Digging beneath L.A.'s layers to preserve its diverse cultural history in electronic form.
The city of Los Angeles is constantly reinventing itself. But now, a project called “Survey L.A.” is digging beneath the city’s layers to identify, catalogue and preserve its diverse cultural history in electronic form. Jeffrey Brown reports on this effort to map the history of a relatively new and rapidly developing city.
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Preserving the LA story, one block at a time
Clip: 5/12/2014 | 7m 14s
The city of Los Angeles is constantly reinventing itself. But now, a project called “Survey L.A.” is digging beneath the city’s layers to identify, catalogue and preserve its diverse cultural history in electronic form. Jeffrey Brown reports on this effort to map the history of a relatively new and rapidly developing city.
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