LA

Question 1

Where is LA ?

Answer 1

West coast of America, State of California

Question 2

Example of a wealthy area in LA ?

Answer 2

Beverly hills

Question 3

Example of a deprived area in LA ?

Answer 3

Watts

Question 4

What’s the features of downtown LA ?

Answer 4

Skyscrapers but surrounded by poor neighbourhoods

Question 5

Facts about the city itself ?

Answer 5

4 Million pop, Second largest city in USA, Megacity and a world city, 66,000 homeless, Very expensive to live there.

Question 6

How is LA a donut city ?

Answer 6

Centre has TNCs and outside of the centre is poor

Question 7

How many towns does greater LA have ?

Answer 7

Over 100 towns and some of these large suburbs became edge cities.

Question 8

Social impacts of suburbanisation on the inner and outer city ?

Answer 8

Social tension as poorer people do not have the same services as richer areas, Poor quality of life, Only the poor and disadvantaged people remain in the inner city.

Extreme social segregation, People who move improve QOL

Question 9

Economic impacts of suburbanisation on the inner and outer city ?

Answer 9

Reduction is resources due to them being needed in suburbs, Social services are funded by local taxation and inner city areas have people who don’t pay much, Inner city decline.

Creation of Edge Cities, Increased resource consumption.

Question 10

Environmental impacts of suburbanisation on the inner and outer city ?

Answer 10

Smog levels have increased, Poor neighbourhoods have less efficient waste management.

Loss of country side such as Orange County, Swallowing up of villages, Over 1000km of freeways

Question 11

What are the majority of migrants in LA ?

Answer 11

Latin American

Question 12

What does the term ‘ghetto’ mean ?

Answer 12

American term to describe an area of a city where the population is almost exclusively made up of an ethnic or cultural minority