The pattern of major retail centers in the Los Angeles Area

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English

Bibliographic Citation

The California Geographer 9: 1-25

Notes

Los Angeles is a prototype of the decentralized city; in fact, it may be the most striking example." Suburbanization has occurred in a landscape that was historically decentralized, so to an extent far greater than in other large American cities dispersed retail concentrations have always been an integral part of the area's business geography. Commercial districts developed early in the satellite towns, and although continuous urban sprawl has fused numerous communities into one vast agglomeration, the older established central business districts remain, forming nuclei in the profusion of suburbs surrounding downtown Los Angeles." After World War II the older centers were unable to supply retail goods and shopping conveniences demanded by an expanding, au tomobile oriented, and affluent, suburban population . This resulted in the formation of numerous commercial concentrations geared speci6cally to serve the suburbanites' needs.

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The pattern of major retail centers in the Los Angeles Area