Blogging Social Differences in L.A.: Week 1

LOS ANGELES
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     Los Angeles does not follow the traditional Chicago School's understanding of a city with one core and a surrounding periphery-- which is the pattern most larger cities around the world match.  Instead, Los Angeles is more in line with Robert E. Park's statement, "The City is a mosaic of little worlds which touch but do not interpenetrate."  This may be true in other large cities around the world where clusters exist in the periphery, but for Los Angels, where multiple cores and peripheries exist, I would hypothesize that this statement has an even stronger resonance of truth.  

     Through field research (walking, busing, experiencing, traveling, watching. sitting, etc.) and theoretical analysis I will test this statement's truth in metropolitan Los Angeles.  I will travel to the dominant cores throughout metropolitan Los Angeles and focus on discovering if the relationship between the multiple mosaic pieces here stop at their borders or if they interpenetrate.  As stated, I hypothesize that they stop at their boundaries, and I would anticipate tension at the development of interpenetration.  I expect that the difference, difference make, in Los Angeles, is continued fragmentation.