The City of Los Angeles holds many distinctions. It is the only city in North America to have hosted the Summer Olympics twice. Downtown L.A. is the largest government center outside of Washington, D.C. Los Angeles has the only remaining wooden lighthouse in the state and the largest historical theater district on the National Register of Historic Places. Here are some more facts and figures about Los Angeles: the city, the county and the region: Entertainment: Los Angeles is the entertainment capital of the world having many entertainment spots that attract the tourists, such as: Universal studios of Hollywood, Water World, Disneyland and the Walk of Fame (numbering more than 2,614 and growing by one or two months). It also has over 100 museums. …show more content…
It is also the main state for most of the production companies for movies, such as: Universal Studio Pictures, 20th century Fox, Paramount Pictures and Disney. Los Angeles is on the leading edge of several growth industries. L.A. County, with more than 87,000 jobs in the fashion industry, has surpassed New York’s fashion district workforce. The L.A. five-county area also has more than 700,000 people at work in health services/biomedical activities and 190,000 people in aerospace/technology. On the urban scale: Los Angeles is also famous for its skyscrapers, such as: Wilshire grand center, 73-storey U.S. bank tower, Aon center, Twin California Plaza, Gas company tower, Bank of America Plaza, 777 Tower, Wells Fargo center, Figueroa at Wilshire, Skyline tower, San Gabriel Mountains and Bunker Hill. These factors affected the city to a level that it could compete with top global cities, it is one of the top cities in the Global City …show more content…
In 1990, the population of Chicago was 3,486,000, with the following racial composition: 75.7 percent white, 14 percent black, 9.8 percent Asian/Pacific Islander, 0.5 percent American Indian. Hispanics (an ethnic rather than a racial designation) accounted for 39.9 percent of the population. Due to the advancement and availability of resources in Los Angeles, people from other US states are continuously moving to benefit from its resources and opportunities. Thus, overpopulation became a problem that is diminishing the quality of life for Californians. Humans deserve to be at the standard of living with enough resources and opportunities, but the luxury lifestyle California offers has stretched too thinly over too many people's needs. Hours stuck in traffic on the 405, excruciatingly long waits, shopping mall lines are some of the more mild misfortunes of overpopulation that Angelenos experience. Climate