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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It’s not a bunch of relatively self-sufficient little cities like say dogs in a pack, but neither is it a tightly interdependent entity like organs in a body. It’s something like a bunch of mutual symbiotic, like lichens.
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The result of this is that whatever function a particularneighborhood serves, it serves it for the whole of LA. Skid row is overwhelming compared to the patches of homeless encampments in Seattle because catchment area is the whole damn county. The malls are super-metro sized.
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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 😎.
But if there’s interesting reading recos there, glad to check them out.
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I’m seeing glimpses, but skid row, even from a block away, is definitely not hiding
