LA thoughts, Day 5. Damn it’s been 5 days already? So the idea I’ve heard from multiple people is that LA is not a single city or mega city but a collection of small cities connected by highways/transit. I don’t think this is quite right. It’s like a dozen partial cities.
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I get a sense of being overwhelmed everywhere compared to other big cities. Like everything is just too big for its neighborhood. I did not get this sense in London say, which is also in a sense a bunch of villages connected by the Tube.
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My theory: all other cities evolved from disconnection to connection, from isolated neighborhoods to interdependent one’s, never quite losing their original isolated character. Here it feels like the neighborhoods and the connective tissue co-evolved.
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Meta-Point: few other cities *invite* so much theorizing attention. I figured out Seattle to my satisfaction within like 2 days, but LA I suspect could suck up a lifetime of my attention if I let it. Closest was Bombay, where I lived (in a protected campus enclave)for 4 years
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If you could construct affinity maps, I suspect you’d get a high score for Bombay-LA, in “if you like X you’ll like Y” sense. Similarities go well beyond both being balmy western-coast film industry cities. Bombay was literally a bunch of islands that were linked up.
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Don’t know who that is and kinda don’t care. I always theorize from the ground up for myself even at the risk of missing or misreading key things
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But if there’s interesting reading recos there, glad to check them out. - Show replies
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welcome to the neighborhood (skid row adjacent)
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