Downtown Los Angeles

Downtown Los Angeles is the downtown area of the metropolis of Los Angeles. However the city is so large that this downtown area resembles more one district like Hollywood than its heart or its dominant zone. They is there that are the government of the Comté of Los Angeles and the city, the majority of the institutions of arts and the sports complexes of the city, as well as a great number of scrapes-ciels and shopping malls. It is the concentrator of the grid systems of the city, where find the essence of the highways and public transport. The downtown is bordered by the river of Los Angeles in the east, highway 101 in north, the interstate 10 in the south and California State Route 110 in the west.

The researcher Mike Davis, in the fourth chapter of his work City off Quartz , violently gives an opinion against the way in which this downtown area was arranged, which enables him to criticize the urban policy of the municipality in a more general way.

Skyline

In spite of its relative decentralization, Los Angeles to the one of largest the " skylines" from the United States, and its development was continued until very recent times. The majority of scrape-ciels were conceived to resist the earthquakes.

The skyline of does not relate to only the downtown , indeed of other groups of scrapes-ciels rise in the remainder of the city, in particular the districts of Hollywood, Koreatown, and Century City.

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