Northwood is a community in the northern part of the City of Irvine in Orange County, California (Figure 5.27). Irvine was developed as a fully planned city, beginning in the 1960s and built on the former Irvine Ranch. It is a classic edge city. The city’s vision statement is ‘to create and maintain a community where people can live, work, and play in an environment that is safe, vibrant, and aesthetically pleasing’. The city was developed around a series of communities called ‘villages’ of which Northwood is one.
Northwood is located on the southern edge of the Los Angeles conurbation about 10 km east of Newport Beach on the Pacific Ocean. To the east are the low Santa Ana Mountains. Some 21,000 people live in Northwood in just over 2000 households. A third of the households are families with children of school age.
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