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15-615: According to the Mapping L.A. survey of the Los Angeles Times, the Verdugos region consists of: In the 2000 census, the Verdugos region had a population of 453,399. Other regions of Los Angeles County 34°12′50″N 118°17′02″W  /  34.214°N 118.284°W  / 34.214; -118.284 This Los Angeles –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mapping L.A. Mapping L.A.

30-493: A complete picture of Los Angeles neighborhoods, with no ambiguities, overlaps or missing pieces." The Times said that the Mapping L.A. project became the newspaper's "resource for neighborhood boundaries, demographics, crime and schools." The results as posted are searchable by address and ZIP code or by individual neighborhood. It noted that: The maps cover the 4,000 square miles [10,500 km ] of Los Angeles County — by far

45-485: A map that identified 472 neighborhoods (in comparison to Mapping LA's 114 neighborhoods). Comparing Brightwell's map with the Mapping LA Project, Jenna Chandler, the editor of Curbed Los Angeles , wrote that Brightwell's map of 472 neighborhoods "looks more accurate than the neighborhood maps compiled by the Los Angeles Times. " Additionally, Elizabeth Fuller of The Larchmont Buzz said that Brightwell's map

60-727: A part of a downward trend of layoffs and restructuring of many venture capital-funded sites, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic , many of Curbed's area-specific sites closed, leaving New York City as the site's sole remaining metropolitan focus. In October 2020, Curbed was integrated into New York magazine's suite of digital publications, where it was redesigned and focused more tightly on New York City's built environment, design, architecture, real estate, and urbanism. Its prominent contributors include New York ' s Pulitzer Prize –winning architecture and music critic Justin Davidson and

75-685: Is a project of the Los Angeles Times , beginning in 2009, to draw boundary lines for 158 cities and unincorporated places within Los Angeles County, California . It identified 114 neighborhoods within the City of Los Angeles and 42 unincorporated areas where the statistics were merged with those of adjacent cities. The project began in February 2009 with the posting online of the first version of boundary lines for 87 Los Angeles neighborhoods. The map

90-463: The Mapping L.A. Project, Downtown L.A. is just " downtown L.A. and Chinatown ; there's no Jewelry District or any of the others." Curbed Los Angeles Curbed is an American real estate and urban design website published by New York magazine. Founded as a blog by Lockhart Steele in 2006 to cover New York City real estate, it grew by 2010 to feature sub-pages dedicated to specific real estate markets and metropolitan areas across

105-573: The United States. Steele once described Curbed.com as an " Architectural Digest after a three-martini lunch". The site hosted an annual contest, the Curbed Cup, to pick the best neighborhood in each city. In November 2013, Vox Media purchased the Curbed Network, which, apart from Curbed , also included dining website Eater and fashion website Racked . The New York Times reported that

120-510: The cash-and-stock deal was worth between $ 20 million and $ 30 million. In 2018, the Curbed critic Alexandra Lange won a New York Press Club award for her story "No Loitering, No Skateboarding, No Baggy Pants." Curbed had expanded to include area-specific editions for Atlanta , Austin , Boston , Chicago , Detroit , Los Angeles , New Orleans , New York City , Philadelphia , San Francisco , Seattle , and Washington, D.C. In 2020, however, as

135-547: The census data in proportion to the relocated block's population. A first draft of 87 neighborhoods was released in February 2009. As the Times received input from their readers, they shifted where the neighborhood boundaries should be nearly 100 times. A final map of 114 neighborhoods was released in June 2009. With the release of the maps, the Times stated: We'll be the first to acknowledge that our map isn't perfect. No lines can capture

150-460: The city into reasonably compact areas leaving no enclaves, gaps, overhangs or ambiguities. The project crafted neighborhood boundaries by merging together neighboring census tracts . However, census tract boundaries are not always consistent with traditional neighborhood boundaries. As the Times states: Census tracts are drawn by the U.S. Census Bureau and used for tabulating demographic information, including income and ethnicity. The shapes of

165-652: The geographic diversity and demographic energy of Los Angeles. Not everyone agreed with the neighborhood boundaries the Times ultimately settled on. Elizabeth Fuller wrote in The Larchmont Buzz that "Many people who live in and represent their neighborhoods in various ways have objected to the Times’ designations for not following city-recognized borders, and for lumping many smaller neighborhoods into larger, more indistinct areas such as “Mid-Wilshire.” In 2017, cartographer Eric Brightwell of Pendersleigh and Sons, created

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180-430: The most populous county in the nation — from the high desert to the coast. In 2009, there were an estimated 9.8 million residents, up from 9.5 million counted in the 2000 U.S. census, the basis for The Times' demographic analysis for each neighborhood and region. Unlike most other attempts at mapping L.A., this one follows a set of principles intended to make it visually and statistically coherent. It gathers every block of

195-485: The tracts are frequently out of sync with the geographical, historic and socioeconomic associations that define communities. However, by using the tracts as building blocks, The Times was able to compile a statistical profile of communities, something other neighborhood boundaries do not offer. The Times further stated that after merging tracts, they then adjusted the boundary lines by moving individual city blocks from one census tract to another. That allowed them to adjust

210-513: Was a much more fine-grained view of “every L.A. neighborhood.” LAist reporter Tim Loc said that while Mapping L.A. provided "plenty of insightful information about individual neighborhoods...Brightwell takes it to the next level when it comes to breaking down the territories." Of Brightwell's map, Loc noted that Downtown L.A. is parsed out as the Historic Core , Bunker Hill , Skid Row , and Gallery Row among others. Brightwell notes that in

225-547: Was then "redrawn with the help of readers who agreed or disagreed with our initial boundaries." The Times said: "After reviewing this collective knowledge, Times staffers adjusted more than 100 boundaries, eliminated some names and added others." The Times' database editor and the map project's coordinator, Doug Smith, along with researcher Maloy Moore, standardized the neighborhood boundaries "based on historical and anecdotal definitions, civic proclamations and reader commentary." "Thousands of city blocks" were converted "into

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