Sustainable Cities - Los Angeles
- Created by: ZodiacRat
- Created on: 07-06-15 11:42
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- Los Angeles
- Transport and communications
- 10 million vehicles on the road.
- Only 30% of people use public transport.
- Deindustrialisation - less jobs in these sectors.
- Aircraft industry.
- Extensive freeways and highways.
- Considered most congested city in USA.
- Disparities of wealth
- Ethnic enclaves - patchwork land use.
- Some of the ethnic enclaves are rich, some are poor.
- Cudahy, Bell Gardens, Watts, Huntington Park are the poorest districts.
- Businesses and the wealthy have moved out of central areas.
- Deindustrialisation - fewer jobs for increasing number of migrants.
- Edge cities - Irvine, Ontario, Anaheim.
- Ethnic enclaves - patchwork land use.
- Areal extent
- Car, tyre, steel and aircraft factories closed.
- Businesses use larger areas of land on outskirts for factories and car parks.
- e.g. Hi-tech electronics, aerospace, light-manufacturing.
- Businesses looking for greenfield sites.
- Doughnut city.
- No planning restrictions (e.g. Greenbelt).
- Quality of the environment
- Waste - 24 million people produce 50,000 tonnes of waste every day.
- Massive energy use.
- Severe smog above city due to inversion layer.
- Transport - 10 million cars on road, only 30% use public transport.
- Congestion on roads.
- Aircraft industries - civil and military test flights and production sites.
- Waste - 24 million people produce 50,000 tonnes of waste every day.
- Transport and communications
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