Is Los Angeles small?

[Rail Claimore]

Los Angeles is probably the largest city in land area (city limit size) in the US that's practically 100% developed. There's practically no vacant land in the city limits that isn't undevelopable mountainous terrain, unlike Jacksonville, OKC, or Houston. And keep in mind, the shape of the city is highly irregular. If the boundaries were regular like Chicago or NY, much of East LA as well as practically all the South Bay cities from El Segundo to Torrance would be part of the City of Los Angeles.

[milquetoast]

Originally Posted by klamedia

Haha...just like I believe that one day we'll put a freeway through the Sepulveda Pass.

Klams, you mean a subway, or is that sarcasm?

I can see the 91 opening up to mass transit
and about 14 lanes.

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[klamedia]

Originally Posted by Rail Claimore

Los Angeles is probably the largest city in land area (city limit size) in the US that's practically 100% developed. There's practically no vacant land in the city limits that isn't undevelopable mountainous terrain, unlike Jacksonville, OKC, or Houston. And keep in mind, the shape of the city is highly irregular. If the boundaries were regular like Chicago or NY, much of East LA as well as practically all the South Bay cities from El Segundo to Torrance would be part of the City of Los Angeles.

Griffith Park could just have been yet another hilly section of the city. Yes, LA's shape is very strange but the strangeness is only in the tail section. The basin and the Valley aren't anything strange. And I disagree that excluding the Valley and LA City basin the rest would take up East LA and the South Bay. What's left of the City of LA after you exclude the Valley and the basin is a very thin strip up to an including San Pedro.


If you took the elongated section and pushed it up with everything else the Wilmington section would probably fit nicely in the Culver City, View Park, and Baldwin Hills area. San Pedro would then fill in Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Santa Monica, Marina Del Rey and left overs would go to Inglewood and possibly Lennox. As far as East La?? the only section east of Downtown really is Boyle Heights and El Sereno. Without "the tail" of the city it isn't that irregular.
And you don't find this highly irregular?

The city center is at the extreme west and northwest and most of the city is separated by water and most of it with the exception of The Bronx are on islands. And now that I look at it Staten Island looks more and more like the Wilmington and San Pedro of NYC. Removed and forgotten.