Bunker Hill, an area of roughly five square blocks in downtown Los Angeles, holds a place in city lore similar to that of the water wars or the construction of Dodger Stadium: beginning in 1959, it was the subject of a massive urban-renewal project, in which “improvement” was generally defined by the people who stood to profit from it [...] subject of this short film by Keven McAlester, which compares what the same streets in downtown Los Angeles looked like in the nineteen-forties and today. — newyorker.com
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Thanks for posting. I love the direct before/after shots alongside one another. Kudos to those who did the recent survey matching the earlier one (glitches aside).
BH wasn't "five square blocks," however. Maybe five blocks square is what was meant... the entire site totaled 130+ acres, the largest US redevelopment area at the time.
Apart from the obvious content, I love how the camera moves in the contemporary version to match the older one.
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