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West Los Angeles
West Los Angeles occupies the area from Beverly Hills to the city's western border. The Santa Monica Mountains cover much of West Los Angeles.
Century City, a planned community, borders Beverly Hills on the southwest. This "city within a city" includes office and residential buildings, large hotels, a shopping center, restaurants, and theaters. Century City stands on land that was once part of the Twentieth Century Fox motion-picture studio.
The community of Westwood and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) lie west of Century City. Westwood began in the 1920's as a small village of Spanish-style buildings. It has grown with the UCLA campus and has become a lively college town, shopping area, and entertainment center.
Three of the city's most fashionable communities-Bel Air, Brentwood, and Pacific Palisades-are in West Los Angeles at the foot of the Santa Monica Mountains. Bel Air is north of Westwood, and Brentwood and Pacific Palisades are west of it.
The community of Venice lies between the city of Santa Monica and Marina del Rey, a harbor for small boats. Venice was designed in the early 1900's as a city of canals like Venice, Italy. Today, most of the canals have been filled in, and the area consists of aging beach homes and hotels, and a few modern apartment buildings.
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