Proposed regional centers and transit blueprint from the Concept Los Angeles General Plan, published in 1970.
The Los Angeles Region Planning History Group actively utilizes planning history in the Los Angeles region, including its individual cities, to guide those who are creating its future. The Group promotes the understanding and study of the LA region’s history through programs and conferences, the collection and preservation of major plans, oral and written histories and related documents in planning and related disciplines.
By the late 1970s, the historical legacy of major land use plans and documents for the Los Angeles region was disappearing at an alarming rate. Concerned planners from local agencies, such as the City of Los Angeles and the County of Los Angeles, and archivists from the Huntington Library, gathered informally in the early 1980s to establish a strategy for preservation and education. From these meetings the Los Angeles Region Planning History Group emerged
LARPHG incorporated in 1984 as a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving municipal, county and private sector planning documents from throughout Los Angeles County. Over the past 20 years, thousands of documents have been collected, cataloged and housed at the Huntington Library for easy research access.
