Driving Downtown Los Angeles, USA - Day & Night | BAO After Work
Downtown Los Angeles witnesses the migration of LA's population throughout the century. Its ups and downs also reflect several crucial social phenomena: the homeless problem, the over-populated jail, lack of housing, mental health & drug-use issue...
1920s is Downtown LA's golden age when a steady influx of residents and aggressive land developers had transformed the city into a large metropolitan area, with DTLA at its center. Rail lines connected four counties. Majestic theater and banking buildings erected one by one. The district held corporate headquarters for multiple financial institutions.
Commercial growth brought with it hotel construction—during this time period several grand hotels, the Alexandria (1906), the Rosslyn (1911), and the Biltmore (1923), were erected — and also the need for venues to entertain the growing population of Los Angeles. Broadway became the nightlife, shopping and entertainment district of the city, with over a dozen theater and movie palaces built before 1932.
The area declined economically after the 1950s. For middle - and upper-income Angelenos, downtown became a drive-in, drive-out destination.
Now Downtown has been experiencing a renaissance that started in the early 2000s. In mid-2013, downtown was noted as "a neighborhood with an increasingly hip and well-heeled residential population".
Downtown Los Angeles is divided into neighborhoods and districts, some overlapping. Most districts are named for the activities concentrated there now or historically, e.g. the Arts, Civic Center, Fashion, Banking, Theater, Toy, and Jewelry districts. It is the hub for the city's urban rail transit system and the Metrolink commuter rail system for Southern California.
It is flanked by Echo Park to the north and northwest, Chinatown to the northeast, Boyle Heights to the east, Vernon to the south, Historic South Central and University Park to the southwest, and Pico-Union and Westlake to the west.
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