for Questions Midterms and Final 1. For the lecture on April 2, you read articles about the following four Los Angeles neighborhoods: Koreatown, MacArthur Park, Chinatown, and Skid Row. Based on your reading of those articles, what are the important trends in each of these neighborhoods, and what do those trends imply for the future of Los Angeles? 2. In your research paper, I asked you to compare and contrast your neighborhood (census tract) to the metropolitan statistical area in which it is located. How does the Census Bureau define a metropolitan statistical area, and what are the advantages and limitations of that definition as a tangible representation of the economic concept of an urban area? 3. In the Economy of Cities, Jane Jacobs identifies two types of cities: manufacturing cities and depot cities. What are depot cities, and what are the key economic principles that implicitly underlie her explanation why such cities exist? 4. In the Economy of Cities, Jane Jac...
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