Visitors to Los Angeles are often unaware that there even is a downtown; the city just seems like endless suburbia, the Great American Nightmare, where even slums have detached houses with lawns and hedges. Gertrude Stein’s famous wisecrack about her hometown of Oakland, California, that “there is no there there,” has come to fit LA […]

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