Erase-atecture In Los Angeles

"'Erase-atecture,' as some architectural historians call it, gives builders room to press forward with their perpetual reinvention of the city, and it often protects the public from unsafe structures. But nobody knows just how much valuable history the wrecking balls obliterate each year... For 40 years, city officials have been building a list of historic monuments, but without any particular methodology. Typically, a property goes unnoticedunless a resident nominates it, and those nominations, usually a dozen or two a year, frequently materialize as last-ditch acts of desperation when demolitions are threatened."

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