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University Park is a subdistrict district of West Adams, Los Angeles, California a few miles south of Downtown Los Angeles. University Park refers to the University of Southern California as well as the neighborhoods immediately surrounding the University, in particular Exposition Park and North University Park. West Adams is a neighborhood southwest of downtown Los Angeles, California. ...
The Bunker Hill district of Downtown Los Angeles as seen from USC, which makes up most of Downtowns skyline. ...
The University of Southern California (commonly referred to as USC, SC, Southern California, and Southern Cal[1]), located in the downtown district of Los Angeles, California, USA, was founded in 1880, making it Californias oldest private research university. ...
Exposition Park is the name of more than one place: Exposition Park (Los Angeles) Exposition Park (Pittsburgh) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
A typical West Adams street scene. ...
This neighborhood's center is the USC campus, a large area surrounded by gates that cut it off from the rest of West Adams, except through entrance on specific streets. This was done ostensibly to reduce crime, and the USC campus does have a rate of crime significantly lower than the rest of West Adams. However, it should be noted that the areas immediately surrounding USC but still in University Park have a level of crime only slightly lower than West Adams in general.
The area's main thoroughfares are Figueroa Street, Jefferson Blvd, Exposition Blvd, Hoover Blvd, and Vermont Blvd. Figueroa Street, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, is one of the longest continuous streets in the world. ...
West Adams as a whole is notable for its architecture (see:Historic Architecture of West Adams), but in many of the residential areas of University Park this architecture has been torn down to make room for apartment-style housing to accomodate USC students, notably along Ellendale Street just north of USC. West Adams is a neighborhood southwest of downtown Los Angeles, California. ...
USC may refer to: United States Constitution, the supreme law of the United States of America United States Congress, the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States UN Security Council, an organ of the United Nations United States Code, a compilation and codification of the general and...
In recent years there has been a movement to extend the buildup of Downtown to make the University Park the districts southern tip. However, despite the recent opening of the Galen Center and plans for the construction of a number of high-rise apartment buildings along Figueroa Street, the possibility of merging University Park with Downtown Los Angeles remains many years away. The Galen Center is the USC Trojans basketball and USC Volleyball facility for the University of Southern California Trojans. ...
Figueroa Street, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, is one of the longest continuous streets in the world. ...
Interesting Fact
- The district signs the City of Los Angeles employs to distinguish the area are notoriously confusing, as at each of the four corners surrounding the University of Southern California, signs tell motorists they are moving into different, distinct districts with puzzling and unused names, such as "West University Expo Park". These names are not in common use and thus provide a distraction for those trying to navigate the expanse of South Los Angeles.
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