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1、BEVERLY HILLS,Beverly Hills is a city in the western part of Los Angeles County, California, United States. Beverly Hills and the neighboring city of West Hollywood are together entirely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles.,Geography,Beverly Hills is home to most Hollywood celebrities, and many co
2、rporate executives and numerous other wealthy individuals and families. Living in Beverly Hills is a sign of prestige and wealth, as it is among the most desirable areas to live in the world.,Beverly Hills also known as “The Hills“ can boast to having the biggest and most expensive estates in the wo
3、rld. In 2007, Coldwell Banker lists Beverly Hills as the most expensive housing market (second year in a row) in the United States, with a median home price of over $2.2 million. These homes range from the extravagant and luxurious in size, to the more elegant and modern homes, and then to the many
4、small duplex rental units and detached homes with less than 2,000 sq ft (185 sq meters).,The Beverly Hills City Hall, built in 1932, was featured prominently in the Beverly Hills Cop films,Beverly Hills Police being inspected in the late 1930s,Beverly Hills is a general law city governed by a five-m
5、ember City Council including the mayor and vice mayor.,The Beverly Hills Police Department and the Beverly Hills Fire Department serve as emergency response for the city. BHFD has the privilege of being distinguished as “Class 1“ in fire protection by an insurance industry rating service.,Government
6、 and infrastructure,Economy,The former Hilton Hotels Corporation headquarters in Beverly Hills Beverly Hills is home to one Fortune 500 company, Live Nation Entertainment, as well as the private equity firm Platinum Equity. The Los Angeles-area offices of Aeroflot and El Al are in Beverly Hills. At
7、one point Hilton Hotels Corporation had its corporate headquarters in Beverly Hills. Originally GeoCities (at first Beverly Hills Internet) was headquartered at 9401 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. Underneath the city is the large and still-productive Beverly Hills Oil Field, serviced by four u
8、rban drilling islands which drill diagonally into the earth underneath the city. The most notorious of these drilling islands occasioned a 2003 lawsuit representing former attendees of Beverly Hills High School, approximately 280 of which had suffered from cancers allegedly tied to the drilling oper
9、ations.,11,Education,Public schools,Beverly Hills is served by Beverly Hills Unified School District; which includes four K-8 schools (Hawthorne, El Rodeo, Beverly Vista, and Horace Mann), Moreno High School, and the Beverly Hills High School,Private schools,Beverly Hills also has several private sc
10、hools. Good Shepherd School, a PreK-8 school in Beverly Hills, is a part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Other Beverly Hills private schools include Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy, Emanuel Academy of Beverly Hills, and Page Private School. Marymount High School in nearby Westwood, a
11、cross from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), is in close proximity to Beverly Hills.,Climate Beverly Hills has a warm and moderate Mediterranean climate, with an average high of 85 degrees in August, and an average high of 64 degrees in January. Beverly Hills also receives on average
12、18 inches of rain. Summers are marked by warm to hot temperatures with very little wind, while winters are moderate to cool with occasional rain alternating with periods of Santa Ana winds. During Santa Ana events, gusts up to 40 mph are common.,Beverly Hills in popular culture,Beverly Hills has bee
13、n featured in a number of television shows and movies set in Beverly Hills, including The Jack Benny Program (1950 to 1954) (and on his radio program from 19321955), The Beverly Hillbillies (1962 to 1971), the Beverly Hills Cop movies, Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990 to 2000), and 90210 (2008 - ).,90210
14、90210 is one of five ZIP codes for Beverly Hills, and perhaps its most-famous, gaining popularity with the 1990s television series Beverly Hills, 90210. Other series to make use of the 90210 ZIP code include Dr. 90210 and the 2008 spin-off of the original, 90210.,Other pop culture,The first track on Weezers Make Believe album is entitled “Beverly Hills“ and is one of their most popular songs.,The 1965 Beverly Hills Public Library building facade was featured regularly on the Brady Bunch as Mr. Bradys office building.,
