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Downtown Los Angeles: A User's Guide
Downtown Los Angeles is a rich canvas. Over the last 160 years, the center of the city been built up atop the successive cycles of boom and bust. In each era, city makers have left their mark on downtown, leaving a toehold for the next wave. In its current incarnation the many neighborhoods of downtown are of great interest to scholars of urban studies, to residents and to investors, with each group bringing to the community their unique perspectives, biases and desires. This evolving digital guide looks at the distinct downtown neighborhoods and their historic intersections, showing where downtown has succeeded, where it has failed, and where it can become stronger in its broken places. Meant to both enlighten the novice and provide insight to the erudite, it is a compliment to Esotouric’s bus tours, blogs and lectures. Below are links to resources (organizations, restaurants, cafes, guides) and photos organized by neighborhood: |
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Lost in the Grooves LLC, d/b/a Esotouric, offers fee-paid guided walking and bus tours. All sales for tours are final and admission fee is non-refundable from 72 hours before tour departure. No shows will be charged in full. Tours are all weather events and operate rain or shine. There are no paper tickets; your name will be on a list. Latecomers may be able to join the tour in progress, but it is not assured, and absolutely no refunds or make goods will be given. This ticket is a license which can be revoked at any time for any reason. Holder assumes all risk and danger of personal injury and all other hazards arising from or related in any way to the event for which this ticket is issued whether occurring prior to, during or after the event and agrees that Lost in the Grooves LLC, d/b/a Esotouric are not liable under any conditions. Esotouric is not liable in any way for event and tour cancellations due to Acts of God or otherwise with events out of our control. Event data, tour route, sites and attractions, times and size of tours are subject to change without notice. In the event that any one or more of the provisions or parts of a provision contained in these Terms & Conditions shall for any reason be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect in any jurisdiction, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other provision or part of a provision of this Agreement or the validity or enforceability of such provision or portion thereof in any other jurisdiction. The recording of any part of the guided tour, including, but not limited to, the narrative, stories, depictions, and the like, by any means whatsoever, is strictly prohibited without the advance written permission of an authorized representative of Lost in the Grooves LLC. Note that the organizers may film, photograph or record the tours and your participation, or permit members of the press to do so.
