After reading and learning about the history of modern architecture as a product of industrialization, I can now identify what kind of historical process some cities and neighborhoods went through. However, this new knowledge brings me many questions: What is the architectural style of the city I live in? Is my old city a modern city? The city of Los Angeles is one of the largest and most expanded metropolises in the United States. It is a city made up of many neighborhoods that overlap their boundaries in history, culture and diversity. I live in the city of Claremont, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Los Angeles County, about 30 miles from the city of Los Angeles. It is imperative to review the architectural history and development of the city, particularly and why in its inception, progress was delayed by nearly a century. In a few paragraphs, three hundred years of history unfold like this: End of 1700 - The Spanish Mission of San Gabriel is founded (1771); extended the production of the land to the slopes of the San Bernardino Mountains where the Serrano Indians lived. Note that only 7 years had passed before the United States declared independence from England. It was a simple community built of adobe and tejas (clay bricks and tiles) as the Industrial Revolution dawned and construction of the iron bridge took place in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England. Late 1800s - With the introduction of by the Santa Fe Railroad (1,887), which gave this small community the name Claremont. Even today I can identify the then modernized zoning as a typical railroad grid community, 12 north-south avenues named after renowned universities, 100 feet wide, etc. The city's real estate boom would be... middle of the paper... planned parks and trails. It's a sensible, accessible community that allows people to manage their lives and get needed public services (not so great in public transportation, but that's a Southern California problem). It has a major modern development plan that embraces city-wide conservation and sustainability programs. Claremont, the city where I live, has been modernized several times. Homeowners and people in general who live in Claremont have many reasons to be proud; including myself, I can identify with her story and feel connected to it.1 Source: http://www.ci.claremont.ca.us/ps.cityprofile.cfm?ID=17052 Neutra also worked for a while with F. L. Wright, but moved to Southern California in 1925. His integration of nature and human design was coined by him as biorealism or "the intrinsic and inseparable relationship between man and nature"..”