Los Angeles gets its first UNESCO World Heritage Site

[Capsule F]

Originally Posted by The North One

^ Because UNESCO designations are meaningless, it's just tourist promotion.

Wrong. They tend to save them for sophisticated or historical places. There just aren't that many of those things out west.

[Quixote]

Originally Posted by Capsule F

Wrong. They tend to save them for sophisticated or historical places. There just aren't that many of those things out west.

Wouldn't you say it's ironic then that the majority of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in this country are located west of the Mississippi?

And the one in LA just so happens to be adjacent to a heavy rail subway station (0.3-mile, 7-minute walk from Vermont/Sunset). The truth is stranger than fiction, no?

[The North One]

Originally Posted by Capsule F

Wrong. They tend to save them for sophisticated or historical places. There just aren't that many of those things out west.

There are many sophisticated and historical places that aren't unesco sites.

A frank lloyd wright house (a wholly overrated architect btw) being the only unesco site in LA and Chicago is very telling.

[dc_denizen]

^ agreed

Well, except about frank Lloyd Wright being overrated

[mousquet]

I recently read that Toulouse, the Airbus and aeronautics hub in my country delayed their file to UNESCO. They would even cancel it if necessary.

In fact, they don't seem to care so much. Their region of Occitanie has already been the most registered in France, and UNESCO rules are only growing more requiring and constraining to Europeans because of the lack of balance between Europe and other parts of the world in their record.

I think it'd be better if there were more registered sites on other continents indeed. So NIMBYism finally gets to the other side of the fence. Lol.

[dc_denizen]

for LA UNESCO sites, what about

Walt Disney studios
Lockheed-Martin Skunk Works
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Rock and Roll Dennys (lol)

For Chicago

Fermilab/Tevatron particle accelerator/University of Chicago
"early skyscrapers" collectively

For Boston:
Lyman Lab at Harvard (home of many great physicists)
Plymouth, Mass (landing of the mayflower)

For DC:
National Institutes of Health
all the monuments, collectively