Blogging Social Difference in L.A.: Week 6

This week, I made a comment to SOULAGES, PATRICK EDWARD's blog Los Angeles: Analysis of Cities and Social DIfferences.

http://patricksoulagesla.blogspot.com/2012/10/blog-post-4-east-los-angeles.html?showComment=1352526788273#c1752006983878519584

Hi Patrick,

I am Kei, taking the same class of "Cities and Differences".
I enjoyed to read your blog, and in the reading I found certain interesting points to discuss. There are two points that I can strongly agree while there is a point that I disagree with what you are trying to say. I would like to share the points that can be considered as important in many means.

Firstly, you mentioned "One Emergence of Postsuburbia: An Introduction" to support the argument about the movement of people in LA. I strongly agree to this since indeed the geography of LA strongly reflects the ideas of multicentered metropolitan region, information capitalism, consumerism, and cosmopolitanism. I also went to Downtown for the field work, I strongly felt these aspects directly from the area.

Secondly, you mentioned that the geography of LA strays away from the Chicago School model that was once so central in the study of cities. I strongly agree to this since the Chicago School Model does not concern about the mobility. Because there are many immigrants including Hispanic, Latino, and Asian in LA, it is significant to clarify a common mistake that people make when they regard LA as the area that applies Chicago School Model.

Thirdly, you said that LA is one of the areas that people can feel the effect of "The Fourth Urban Revolution". When this "Fourth Urban Revolution" is considered in more specific, one may says that "Globalization" goes on in LA regions. However, it is significant for us to notice that "globalization" does not only include the feature of micro means of globalization (ex. inside of area) but also the macro means of globalization (ex. outside of area). When we think about the globalization outside of area, is LA considered as core or periphery? If you consider LA as core, then it should be defined that LA specializes in high value labor. It is question whether LA really specializes in high value labor since certain poverty exists in the town. When you use the word "Fourth Urban Revolution", it can be said that this should be used in more broad sense.

Thank you.