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Using photographs and a multimedia map, future city planners Natalie Golnazarians, Jack Lam and Eduardo Arenas explore the transformation of Boyle Heights from a predominantly Jewish neighborhood to a heavily Latino community.
USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development students Lam and Golnazarians have photographed some of the remnants of the Jewish Boyle Heights community from the 1920s through the 1940s. They also have documented much of what has replaced it. Synagogues and business offices have become churches; storefront “shuls” became retail stores.
Arenas has systematically documented the events and actions that are precursors to the next likely transformation of Boyle Heights. On an “active” map, Arenas has plotted, much as on a weather map, the displacements, political actions and crucial events in this process. In other work on the Pico-Aliso district adjacent to Boyle Heights, he has developed an analytical chronology of its transformations over past decades.
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