San Fernando Valley

Sprawling LA basin

The San Fernando Valley is a region of Los Angeles, California, lying north of the Santa Monica Mountains.

Locals call it simply the Valley.

It became synonymous with suburban sprawl and, through the 1980s "Valley girl" stereotype, with a particular style of vapid, mall-obsessed youth culture and affected speech patterns: like, totally, gag me with a spoon.

The Valley is also home to much of the American pornography industry.

geography

Los Angeles

Southern California metropolis

Chatsworth · North Hollywood · Calabasas · Burbank · Glendale · Mulholland

suburban

sprawl

Extend in disorderly fashion

carpool · traffic · freeway · residential · homeowners · HOA · zoning · neighborhood · pool · air-conditioning

agriculture

citrus

Acidic fruits with segments

ranching · farming · fertile · acreage · produce · soil · cultivation · aqueduct · water · drought

earthquake

1994

A calendar year

aftershock · epicenter · destruction · damage · rebuilding · retrofit · tremor · disaster

film

Hollywood

American film industry center

production · Warner Bros · Universal · Disney · NBC · pornography · casting · director · producer · screenwriting

Categories
Opposites
coastal vs inland la geography

San Fernando ValleySanta Monica

Los Angeles beach suburb

Malibu · Venice Beach · Pacific Palisades · Manhattan Beach · South Bay

la cultural identity and prestige

San Fernando ValleyBeverly Hills

Affluent Southern California city

Bel Air · Hollywood Hills · West Hollywood · Brentwood · Santa Monica

urban density and form

San Fernando ValleyDowntown LA

Central business district

Manhattan · urban core · downtown · city center · San Francisco

Family

Fernando, Valley, valleys

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G