Don’t Be a Menace to South Central while Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

Los Angeles, like other large urban centers (New York City, for example), is a big place with lots of people. Unlike New York City, Los Angeles has long been noted for its sprawling major commercial, financial, and cultural institutions, which are geographically dispersed rather than being concentrated in a single downtown or central area.¹ It also makes sense, then, for Los Angeles to be known as a city of car-dependent communities. The termurban sprawlgenerally has negative connotations because of the health, environmental, and cultural issues associated with the phrase. Residents of sprawling neighborhoods tend to emit more pollution