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Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)

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Re: Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)

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Post by nunez »

rustywasm wrote: post #24
ericzawo wrote: post #12

Having moved to LA this february, the sprawl is really something I had no true appreciation for until I moved here for real, and tried to run errands across town. It's a gigantic, beautiful, complicated place.

One the experiences for me that never gets old is coming in to LAX (flight path East to West) and the sprawl just goes on forever. The other crazy thing that 60% of the population speak a language other than English at home. So I think it has one of the best options for cuisine in the world, because it's all there (somewhere!)

All the way to almost San Diego, which is insane

Re: Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)

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Post by incanus77 »

As others have pointed out, this is more about the age of existing buildings than the construction of the city, but it's pretty neat.

About ten years ago when we were working on Mapbox GL, I did a mobile-native viz like this to show off the vector tile tech. The blog post is still up (thankfully) which has a good bit of info on the data processing pipeline as well, ranging from Shapefile to GeoJSON to vector tiles on the backend to Swift on the frontend:

https://medium.com/mapbox/visualizing-an-entire-citys-buildi...

I always loved mirroring a phone to a large TV and showing this off at 60FPS. It was such fun tech to work on.

Re: Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)

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Post by lokar »

stouset wrote: post #74
syspec wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you own your home? Here in Ca? You know that property tax is 1.4ish % and goes up by 2% a year, pretty much no matter what? On a 1.5M house, that's starting at 17K a year and each year it goes up 2%, so it compounds. That's 17k a year Just to stay in your own home. People who don't pay property taxes here in ca, act like prop 13 means zero property taxes

While I think the goal of Prop 13 is laudable, a few reforms would cut some of the biggest downsides: it should be be for primary residences, where the named owner is the primary resident. This would eliminate the tax break for commercial property, prevent it from being abused for second homes, and avoid the property trust shenanigans that have allowed some properties to change hands without a reset in the taxes paid…

I’m not sure why people are downvoting (without commenting), but I agree.

The main selling point of prop13 was a real problem: rapidly increasing values were driving up taxes so fast that long time residents (of modest means) were being forced out.

I don’t think it’s entirely unreasonable to have some policy that attempts to protect people living in their primary residence from rapid tax increases they can’t afford.

Re: Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)

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Post by [deleted] »

bloppe wrote: post #98
bingohbangoh wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do people really think that if we revoked Prop 13 that other taxes would go down with the new money from property taxes? Or do we think that property taxes would go up while other taxes stay put? This feels like the argument at play when people criticize Prop 13. Not saying it’s good but California hasn’t ever cut taxes meaningfully and I’m not convinced raising property taxes would solve anything. California would s…

I've never heard anybody say anything like that when criticizing prop 13. It usually has more to do with housing prices and the fact that 2 people with the same home value should pay the same in property taxes. If you wanted to create a hereditary landed gentry, it would be hard to come up with a better policy to achieve that than prop 13.

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Re: Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)

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Post by lokar »

golem14 wrote: post #76
epistasis wrote: post #28

It's amazing how little has changed in recent years in LA. The massive downzoning of the 1980s had its effect: prevent efficient land use, and channel money into the hands of landlords and homeowners from all newcomers. LA is a ridiculously unaffordable place to live, not because it's nice, but because of an artificial shortage of built space, due to a monopoly on the permission to build.

There is also a completely unreasonable shortage of water for a much bigger city.

CA has droughts, but not water shortages. Most of the water goes to highly inefficient and low value farming.

Re: Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)

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Post by lokar »

wathef wrote: post #52

Los Angeles had the largest public transportation network in the United States until we paved over it[1]. We had over 1,300 miles! You could've gone from Huntington Beach to Downtown and all the way up to Burbank. You can see many of the maps of Los Angeles at the public library[2]. I don't live there anymore, love that place though. [1] - https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-la/from-rail-to-roads-an... [2] - https://…

It’s making a comeback

Re: Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)

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Post by lokar »

rustywasm wrote: post #24
ericzawo wrote: post #12

Having moved to LA this february, the sprawl is really something I had no true appreciation for until I moved here for real, and tried to run errands across town. It's a gigantic, beautiful, complicated place.

One the experiences for me that never gets old is coming in to LAX (flight path East to West) and the sprawl just goes on forever. The other crazy thing that 60% of the population speak a language other than English at home. So I think it has one of the best options for cuisine in the world, because it's all there (somewhere!)

A family member lives near Pasadena. We asked if they wanted to go to a restaurant near Santa Monica. They sort of scoffed at the idea of going over to the west side unless it was really important.

Re: Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)

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Post by jedberg »

syspec wrote: post #60
kfarr wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And don’t forget prop 13, there’s negative incentive for property to change hands and develop.

Do you own your home? Here in Ca? You know that property tax is 1.4ish % and goes up by 2% a year, pretty much no matter what? On a 1.5M house, that's starting at 17K a year and each year it goes up 2%, so it compounds. That's 17k a year Just to stay in your own home. People who don't pay property taxes here in ca, act like prop 13 means zero property taxes

> Do you own your home? Here in Ca?

Yes and yes.

And I pay 10K less a year than my neighbor for the same value house. And I pay 10K more a year than my other neighbor.

I get a huge advantage from Prop 13, but I still think it needs to get replaced with a much fairer system.

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