Or perhaps it's that the place has proved to be a city that we peel back in layers, practical and cultural and scientific, where to immerse becomes the only way to know. Geology, infrastructure and mythologies - they all intersect beneath the level of the city's streets. “A city 70 miles square but rarely 70 years deep,” Reyner Banham once described it, but that has proved not quite to represent the place. Los Angeles appears to be about the surfaces, but it's really about the depths. The anecdotes you are about to read are some of many that will be explored in the one-day public conference. 11, USC’s Doheny Library will host “Under L.A.: Subterranean Stories”. What lies beneath our Los Angeles feet? What is the connection between our terra firma and all that lies below? What can we learn about both our past and future from looking down instead of up? On Saturday, Nov.
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