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The City of Los Angeles and Bel Air
United States
LA
is a city of contrasts: glamour and luxury in
Bel Air and Beverly Hills versus the gang-ridden violence of
South Los Angeles. Sunshine and noir; sparkling utopias and dark
corners. Mexicans, Koreans, Guatemalans and Salvadorans are crowded
into a downtown area that has failed to become the city’s centre,
while the density of wealth is portioned neatly into Bel Air, where
expensive houses sit on relatively small parcels of land, acquired
at great expense. The contrasting lines of the bankrupt City of
Angels and the proportion of wealth in rose-pruned Bel Air is
palpable and telling.