- LA is experiencing a "Donut city" where a economic hole in the downtown area (near the centre)
- Car, tyre, steel and aircraft factors closed due to competion from overseas and rapidly changing technology
- Aircraft sites needed to move as testing required more land, which was not avaiable in the centre of LA
- Modern high-tech companies and aerospace manufactoring industries needed larger sites
- The moving of many companies left many people unemployed leading to derelication and poverty, this is why the economy is weaker in the centre
Why have the suburbans sprawled?
Urban Push
- Business men looking for greenfield sites (which aren't avaliable in urban areas)
- Congestion (high population = loads of cars)
- Declining jobs because companies are relocating
- Poor schools (more working class so a drop in educational performance)
Suburban Pull
- Safer neighbourhoods (as unemplyment can lead to crime and there's no unemployment here in the suburb's)
- Larger shopping malls (so greater accessablitity)
- Cheaper lan and larger properties
- Better schools and services (les unemloyment and more middle-class that stress the importance of school achievement)
Background factors
- Cheap fuel
- Increase in services
- High average incomes (more middle-class people)
- Investment in transportation
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