Blogging social difference in Los Angeles: Week 4

For week 4, I decided to do my first comment on someone else's blog. I chose: http://efgeog151.blogspot.com and commented on her last week's blog post. 

Comment below:

Hello Elizabeth!

I'm commenting on the part of your Week 3 blog that referencing centralized decentralization in Venice. This is a characteristic in all cities, but is especially prevalent in Los Angeles. Los Angeles has so many of these decentralized hubs, because it is so sprawling and therefore allows the space necessary to accommodate many different cultural hubs in one centralized area. Venice also takes on slight characteristics of the Carceral Archipelago, where there is a very high homeless population yet Venice is still an affluent area. Another place in Los Angeles with this character is Skid Row, where it is more impoverished than all the surrounding affluent areas surrounding it. Venice has this class divide demonstrated in this weeks reading The Urban Process Under Capitalism by David Harvey. The wealth gap exists in Venice due to the wealthy citizen’s desire to live near the beach while the large homeless population congregates in Venice due to its nice weather and social programs that the city provides. Another comment I would like to make about your blogging on Venice is the way a decentralized hub like Abbot Kinney exists in this small city. Even though the area of Venice is quite small, there is still a way for there to be a cultural artsy area.