Editing Los Angeles (section)

===Post-WWII===
[[File:WSA Photo 4235.jpg|thumb|right|During [[World War II]], the [[California Shipbuilding Corporation]] on [[Terminal Island]] was among the many builders that made the [[Port of Los Angeles]] one of the largest [[shipyards]] in the country.]]
During [[United States home front during World War II|World War II]] Los Angeles was a major center of wartime manufacturing, such as shipbuilding and aircraft. [[California Shipbuilding Corporation|Calship]] built hundreds of [[Liberty Ship]]s and [[Victory Ship]]s on Terminal Island, and the Los Angeles area was the headquarters of six of the country's major aircraft manufacturers ([[Douglas Aircraft Company]], [[Hughes Aircraft Company|Hughes Aircraft]], [[Lockheed Corporation|Lockheed]], [[North American Aviation]], [[Northrop Corporation]], and [[Vultee Aircraft|Vultee]]). During the war, more aircraft were produced in one year than in all the pre-war years since the Wright brothers flew the first airplane in 1903, combined. Manufacturing in Los Angeles skyrocketed, and as [[William S. Knudsen]], of the National Defense Advisory Commission put it, "We won because we smothered the enemy in an avalanche of production, the like of which he had never seen, nor dreamed possible."<ref>Parker, Dana T. ''Building Victory: Aircraft Manufacturing in the Los Angeles Area in World War II'', pp.5–8, 14, 26, 36, 50, 60, 78, 94, 108, 122, Cypress, CA, 2013. {{ISBN|978-0-9897906-0-4}}.</ref>

After the end of [[World War II]] Los Angeles grew more rapidly than ever, [[Urban sprawl|sprawling]] into the [[San Fernando Valley]].<ref name="Bruegmann2006">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HFjLm2BauZ8C|title=Sprawl: A Compact History|last=Bruegmann|first=Robert|date=November 1, 2006|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-07691-1|page=133|author-link=Robert Bruegmann|access-date=October 1, 2011|archive-date=November 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231106164354/https://books.google.com/books?id=HFjLm2BauZ8C|url-status=live}}</ref> The expansion of the state owned [[Interstate Highway System]] during the 1950s and 1960s helped propel suburban growth and signaled the demise of the city's privately owned [[Pacific Electric|electrified rail system]], once the world's largest.
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As a consequence of World War II, suburban growth, and population density, many amusement parks were built and operated in this area.<ref name="Braun">{{cite web |last1=Braun |first1=Michael |title=The economic impact of theme parks on regions |url=http://www-sre.wu.ac.at/neurus/braun.pdf |access-date=November 4, 2021 |archive-date=December 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211207142843/http://www-sre.wu.ac.at/neurus/braun.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> An example is [[Beverly Park (amusement park)|Beverly Park]], which was located at the corner of Beverly Boulevard and La Cienega before being closed and substituted by the [[Beverly Center]].<ref name="Jennings">{{cite book |last1=Jennings |first1=Jay |title=Beverly Park: L.A.'s Kiddieland, 1943–74 |date=February 26, 2021 |publisher=Independently published |isbn=979-8713878917 }}</ref>

In the second half of the 20th century, Los Angeles substantially reduced the amount of housing that could be built by drastically [[Zoning in the United States|downzoning]] the city. In 1960, the city had a total zoned capacity for approximately 10 million people. By 1990, that capacity had fallen to 4.5 million as a result of policy decisions to ban housing through zoning.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Monkkonen |first1=Paavo |last2=Manville |first2=Michael |last3=Lens |first3=Michael |date=2024 |title=Built out cities? A new approach to measuring land use regulation |journal=Journal of Housing Economics |volume=63 |doi=10.1016/j.jhe.2024.101982 |issn=1051-1377|doi-access=free }}</ref>

Racial tensions led to the [[Watts riots]] in 1965, resulting in 34 deaths and over 1,000 injuries.<ref name="Hinton2">{{cite book |last1=Hinton |first1=Elizabeth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ATS6CwAAQBAJ&q=Turn+left+or+get+shot&pg=PA69 |title=From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America |date=2016 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=9780674737235 |pages=68–72 |access-date=May 15, 2022 |archive-date=November 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231106164354/https://books.google.com/books?id=ATS6CwAAQBAJ&q=Turn+left+or+get+shot&pg=PA69#v=snippet&q=Turn%20left%20or%20get%20shot&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:Olympic Torch Tower of the Los Angeles Coliseum.jpg|thumb|left|Opening ceremony of the [[1984 Summer Olympics]] at the [[Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum|LA Coliseum]]]]
In 1969, California became the birthplace of the Internet, as the first [[ARPANET]] transmission was sent from the [[University of California, Los Angeles]] (UCLA) to the [[Stanford Research Institute]] in [[Menlo Park, California|Menlo Park]].<ref name="HafnerLyon1999">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RLKxSvCBQZcC|title=Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet|last1=Hafner|first1=Katie|last2=Lyon|first2=Matthew|date=August 1, 1999|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-0-684-87216-2|page=153|author-link1=Katie Hafner|access-date=October 1, 2011|archive-date=November 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231106164355/https://books.google.com/books?id=RLKxSvCBQZcC|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1973, [[Tom Bradley (American politician)|Tom Bradley]] was elected as the city's first African American mayor, serving for five terms until retiring in 1993. Other events in the city during the 1970s included the [[Symbionese Liberation Army]]'s [[South Los Angeles|South Central]] standoff in 1974 and the [[Hillside Stranglers]] murder cases in 1977–1978.<ref name="vronsky187">{{cite book |last=Vronsky |first=Peter |url=https://archive.org/details/serialkillersmet00vron_582 |title=Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters |year=2004 |isbn=0-425-19640-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/serialkillersmet00vron_582/page/n208 187] |publisher=Penguin |url-access=limited}}</ref>

In early 1984, the city surpassed Chicago in population, thus becoming the second largest city in the United States.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ap |date=1984-04-08 |title=LOS ANGELES REPLACES CHICAGO AS SECOND CITY |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/08/us/los-angeles-replaces-chicago-as-second-city.html |access-date=2025-03-16 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

In 1984, the city hosted the Summer Olympic Games [[1984 Summer Olympics|for the second time]]. Despite being [[1984 Summer Olympics boycott|boycotted by 14 Communist countries]], the 1984 Olympics became more financially successful than any previous,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-jun-30-me-rood30-story.html|title=Rodney W. Rood, 88; Played Key Role in 1984 Olympics, Built Support for Metro Rail|last=Woo|first=Elaine|date=June 30, 2004|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=October 1, 2011|archive-date=December 13, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111213223948/http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jun/30/local/me-rood30|url-status=live}}</ref> and the second Olympics to turn a profit; the other, according to an analysis of contemporary newspaper reports, was the [[1932 Summer Olympics]], also held in Los Angeles.<ref name="Zarnowski">{{cite journal|author-link1=Frank Zarnowski|last=Zarnowski|first=C. Frank|date=Summer 1992|title=A Look at Olympic Costs|url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv1n1/JOHv1n1f.pdf|url-status=dead|journal=Citius, Altius, Fortius|volume=1|issue=1|pages=16–32|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528012143/http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv1n1/JOHv1n1f.pdf|archive-date=May 28, 2008|access-date=October 1, 2011}}</ref>
[[File:48 California Willshire Grand (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|[[Wilshire Grand Center]], built in 2017, is the [[List of tallest buildings in California|tallest building in California]] and in the [[Western United States]].]]
Racial tensions erupted on April 29, 1992, with the acquittal by a [[Simi Valley]] jury of four [[Los Angeles Police Department]] (LAPD) officers captured on videotape beating [[Rodney King]], culminating in [[Los Angeles riots of 1992|large-scale riots]].<ref name="RuckerUpton2007">{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of American race riots|last1=Rucker|first1=Walter C.|last2=Upton|first2=James N.|last3=Hughey|first3=Matthew W.|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=2007|isbn=978-0-313-33301-9|pages=376–85|chapter=Los Angeles (California) Riots of 1992|access-date=October 1, 2011|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mQcrpqn0124C&pg=PA376|archive-date=November 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231106164355/https://books.google.com/books?id=mQcrpqn0124C&pg=PA376|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/25/us/california-post-riot/|title=Riot anniversary tour surveys progress and economic challenges in Los Angeles|last=Wilson|first=Stan|date=April 25, 2012|work=[[CNN]]|access-date=January 23, 2015|archive-date=September 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924154722/http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/25/us/california-post-riot/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1994, the magnitude 6.7 [[Northridge earthquake]] shook the city, causing $12.5&nbsp;billion in damage and 72 deaths.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-12-20-mn-16032-story.html|title=Study Raises Northridge Quake Death Toll to 72|last=Reich|first=Kenneth|date=December 20, 1995|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=October 1, 2011|page=B1|archive-date=December 13, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111213215204/http://articles.latimes.com/1995-12-20/news/mn-16032_1_quake-death-toll|url-status=live}}</ref> The century ended with the [[Rampart scandal]], one of the most extensive documented cases of police misconduct in American history.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/lapd/scandal/cron.html|title=Rampart Scandal Timeline|access-date=October 1, 2011|publisher=[[Frontline (U.S. TV series)|PBS Frontline]]|archive-date=March 4, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304053924/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/lapd/scandal/cron.html|url-status=live}}</ref>