Wayno wrote:crawf wrote:Quite random this.
But I was just looking at downtown Los Angeles on google earth and omg I have never seen so many carparks in my life. There are literally thousands of them all around the so called CBD!, the city area looks like a complete disgrace.
I would hate to live LA. I wouldn't mind living in New York but definitely not Los Angeles.
yep L.A. is the epitomy of car-dependent urban sprawl...and their CBD has very limited appeal. population is about 20mil i think.
[edit] whoops, only 4mil people in LA...16mil must haved moved out recently
But of course their near neighbours like Orange County, San Bernardino County, Riverside County and Ventura County are all pretty much the same contiguous area of srawl.
LA is the flattest sprawliest city I've been to. Take an image of the southern suburbs along South Road and extend that unplanned capitalist melange of shops, industry and single dwelling residential blocks and extend it as far as you can imagine, and then some, then add the spaghetti of a major freeway system where EVERYONE drives their own car (usually all by them self) and you might have half a clue of what a big flat samey pancake of an urban nightmare LA is.
The only area with much high rise is the old Fox Backlot. Where 20th Century Fox sold off their large backlot post earthquake proofing highrise was invented by the Japanese. That area has some tall buildings.
Now the counties are struggling with the impact of 50 years of freeways. Everytime they added to the system, demand grew to meet capacity. Build it and they will drive on it. So now they're trying to shoehorn PT into a sprawl with minor success. They're running light rail down the middle of some freeways for example. The State's (California) looking into a fast heavy rail system to link San Francisco with the Fresno valley area and LA and San Diego. It's a fun time to be in LA with all this talk of capital works now that the glint of liberal capitalism is tarnishing.
That said, I love Anaheim due to Disneyland
Exit on the right in the direction of travel.