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Article: A different sort of killing: Los Angeles.(living conditions in South Central Los Angeles are fairly good and the few retailers there do very well)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- January 27, 1996
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THE surprising thing for outsiders new to South Central--the district of Los Angeles that bore the brunt of the 1992 riots--is that it is no ghetto. Row upon row of detached houses, trim lawns and well-polished cars would anywhere else suggest a middle-class neighbourhood. Despite the 700 or so buildings damaged or destroyed in the riots, there are few signs of the crushing poverty, the broken streets and the derelict tenements that have made New York's Bronx into a war zone. So why do the myths about South Central persist?
Perhaps, say researchers, because the usual idea of inner-city decay is based on evidence from big cities in the north-east and mid-west where a ...