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Cultural Corridors in Los Angeles

Cultural Corridors in Los Angeles. By: Cynthia Guzman. Defining “cultural corridor”. “Districts with distinctive cultural character defined by immigrant populations.” Provide support and services for immigrant communities, via a variety of different commercial businesses/non-profits, etc.

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Cultural Corridors in Los Angeles

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  1. Cultural Corridors in Los Angeles By: Cynthia Guzman

  2. Defining “cultural corridor” • “Districts with distinctive cultural character defined by immigrant populations.” • Provide support and services for immigrant communities, via a variety of different commercial businesses/non-profits, etc. • Often arise due to concentration of businesses and/or peoples of a certain group in an area. • Policy question: “What [else] makes a cultural corridor?” Whose interest do they serve? Does this change over time? • For purposes of this assignment, will only be looking at corridors that have been “recognized” by the City of Los Angeles.

  3. Skills Used • Inset map • Geocoding • Buffering • Data Joining • Point or line graduated symbol • Charts, graphs or images • Geoprocessing(clip)

  4. Overview

  5. Little Ethiopia • Began forming in the 1990s as Ethiopian restaurants, markets, and assorted service shops began to gather in the area. • Officially recognized by the City of Los Angeles in 2001 (?). • Los Angeles is home to the second largest group of Ethiopians living in the U.S. behind Washington, DC. • The Ethiopian population in LA county is unofficially estimated at over 60,000. (Figures taken from Little Ethiopia Business Association)

  6. Salvadoran Corridor • ACR 126 recognized corridor. Authored by Assembly Member Mike Davis. (2010) • Approximately half a million Salvadorans live in the City of Los Angeles, 100 thousand near the corridor alone. • “Provide existing and future business and property owners with a variety of community services and improvements to help boost the economic livelihood, improve social cultural well-being of the area and encourage economic pride.” (Figures taken from ARC 126 press release. Mission Statement taken from www. salvadorancorredorusa.com)

  7. Sources: UCLA MapShare, Social Explorer, P Drive

  8. Sources: UCLA MapShare, Social Explorer, P Drive

  9. Sources: UCLA MapShare, Social Explorer, P Drive

  10. Sources: UCLA MapShare, P Drive, SocialExplorer

  11. Sources: UCLA MapShare, Social Explorer, P Drive

  12. Sources: UCLA MapShare, Social Explorer, P Drive

  13. Sources: Social Explorer UCLA MapShare, GoogleEarth, P Drive

  14. Sources: SocialExplorer, UCLA MapShare, Google Earth , P Drive

  15. Affiliated Businesses by Type

  16. Next Steps Land use Refine business lists Vacancies along corridors Identify businesses with parcels according to AIN numbers Identify non-profits/social services in the area not a complete list/subject to change

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