With only limited
space between the desert, the mountains and the ocean, LA has long
since filled in the gaps between what were once small and isolated
towns. As a result, it's a massive conglomeration of interconnected,
amorphous districts, often with little in common.
If LA has a heart,
however, it's downtown , in the center of the basin. It offers a taste
of almost everything you'll find elsewhere around the city, from upscale
avant-garde art along Bunker Hill to the abject dereliction of Skid
Row in the Eastside, compressed into an area of small, easily walkable
blocks. The area around downtown contains some decaying Victorian suburbs,
1920s Art Deco buildings and the center of LA's enormous and growing
Hispanic population. Heading west from
downtown to the coast, the first major district you come to, Hollywood
, has streets caked with movie legend - even if the genuine glamour
is long gone. Adjoining West LA is home to the city's newest money,
shown off in Beverly Hills and along the Sunset Strip. Santa Monica
and Venice to the west are the quintessential seafront LA of palm trees,
white sands and laid-back living, while the coastline itself stretches
another twenty miles northwest to glamorous Malibu , home to the movieland
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