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felscher@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de wrote:
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Hello,

	Sorry about the previous message - messed up.



	 The pueblo was laid out according to the 1573 Laws of the Indies

 "which had shaped virtually every one of the thousands of Spanish colonial

 villages, towns and cities, from Chile to California"-1-.  The plaza was

 placed diagonally to break up the prevailing winds, an rule from the writings

 of Roman architect? Marcus Vitruvius (1st century BC).  The classical era was

 the model at the time.



	In 1849, an Army lieutenant named Edward Ord conducted a survey of the

 pueblo, probably coming from Monterey, where he may have had a farewell drink

 with a fellow young lieutenant named William Tecumseh Sherman before he left

 (OK I'm stretching it).   Ft. Ord, by Monterey, was the fort where the 7th

 Infantry Division, active Army troops during april 92 riots, was stationed

 until deactivating/moving this year.



	Ord could have realligned the grid at the time but didn't.  He actually

 laid out two grids on the flat, one north of the plaza (Chinatown) and a

 larger one south of it (old core of Downtown, not Bunker Hill), slightly

 skewed from each other.



	In 1854, Army surveyor Hancock realligned and extended Ord's survey to

 the boundries of the pueblo lands ("one league to each wind" from the front

 door of the Plaza Church (league=2.6 miles)-2-), at an angle somewhere in

-between that of Ord's two grids and on the larger scale of U.S. Land Survey of

 1783.



  I got most of this info from a book called "L.A. Boulevard" by Doug Suisman.

Incredibly interesting for anyone with interest in L.A., the best discussion of

 L.A.'s streets I've seen.  Highly recommend.  Available at Hennessy and

 Ingalls on 3rd St. in Sta. Monica.   Suisman is/was? a prof at USC.  Elson you

 are familiar with him maybe? 

  Answered by book:  Why do we have Boulevards in L.A.?

  Also some info from `Los Angeles, The Enormous Village' by John Weaver.






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Brendan Clarke, Mid-city Los Angeles                XX sig, dig? 
L.A. Eco-village, Bimini Place