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E Pluribus Unum can be translated as ‘many uniting as one’. The motto is as appropriate now as it was when first suggested by the committee that Congress appointed to design the Great Seal for the United States of America on July 4th, 1776. When Rios Clementi Hale Studios (RCHS) was commissioned by the County of Los Angeles to transform a neglected 12 acre open downtown space into a landmark urban park, the Grand Avenue Committee may well have had the motto in mind. The client’s brief was “to provide a unifying place that would appeal to the regions diverse communities as well as visitors from around the world”.
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Flannery, J.A., Smith, K.M. (2015). Grand Park. In: Eco-Landscape Design. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07206-7_2
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