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Los Angeles Region Planning History Group Presents: Black Gold in Paradise
April 11, 2015 from 9:30 AM to 2:00 PM
Signal Hill Community Center
Los Angeles Region Planning History Group Presents: Black Gold in Paradise
Saturday, April 11
9:30 AM-2 PM
Signal Hill Community Center
$50 / $35 students
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The Los Angeles Region Planning Historic Group presents its 11th colloquium, “Black Gold: The Influence of Oil and Energy Extraction on LA’s Urban Form,” in cooperation with the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.
Oil boomed in 1890s Los Angeles and by the 1920s, oil was shaping the region. By 1930, California produced one quarter of the world’s oil – it was the Saudi Arabia of America. In many ways, Black Gold paid for Paradise.
How have the region’s communities been shaped by oil, and how have those places remade themselves as time has passed? How can planning lessons from the past be applied to current issues such as the potential impact of fracking on local communities?
Presenters will include:
- Sarah S. Elkind, Professor of History, San Diego State University
- Kenneth C. Farfsing, City Manager, City of Signal Hill
- Nancy Quam-Wickham, Professor of History, California State University, Long Beach
For more information, visit LARPHG.
