"Oakwood's transformation unfolds largely unseen by the 150,000 tourists who throng the carnivalesque boardwalk of buskers, drum circles, painters, bodybuilders and exhibitionists every weekend.
"Guests at the Airbnb properties which now sprinkle Oakwood can see the building blitz but the glass and steel stucco boxes are indistinguishable from the others popping up across Venice."
Rory Carroll in The Guardian discusses demographic change in Los Angeles.
Thursday, December 01, 2016
"The Slow-Motion Exodus Seems Set to Continue"
Labels:
2010s,
California,
class,
crime,
economic history,
economics,
Los Angeles,
race and ethnicity,
social history,
twenty-first century,
urban history,
Venice
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