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b'\\u201cWe\\u2019re proud that Los Angeles, which is a city that\\u2019s sometimes derided as a city that doesn\\u2019t care about its history or doesn\\u2019t care about historic preservation, we think we\\u2019re finally exploding that myth once and for all.\\u201d\\n\\n\\n\\nIn 1962 Los Angeles passed one of the first and most forward-thinking historic preservation ordinances in the United States, which called for a complete survey of the city to identify cultural monuments. Nearly 40 years later, however, the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) found that only 15 percent of the city\\u2019s 465 square miles and 880,000 legal parcels had been assessed. A few years after that, the city created the Office of Historic Resources and, together with the GCI, organized a citywide survey of landmarks. They cataloged everything from architecturally significant buildings to iconic plants and natural features to sites of historic events for many of the city\\u2019s ethnic and racial communities. The website HistoricPlacesLA, built on the GCI\\u2019s open-source Arches platform, makes these findings available to the public and provides a resource for city planners, researchers, movie producers, and residents.\\n\\n\\n\\nIn this episode, Ken Bernstein, principal city planner and manager at the Office of Historic Resources, City of Los Angeles, and Tim Whalen, the John E. and Louise Bryson Director of the Getty Conservation Institute, discuss the importance of documenting LA\\u2019s cultural heritage, the process involved in this work, and the value of ongoing surveys of the city.\\n\\n\\n\\nFor images, transcripts, and more, visit getty.edu/podcasts.'