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Sprawl Hits the Wall: Confronting the Realities of Metropolitan Los Angeles

Published by USC Southern California Studies Center and the Brookings Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy

This report shows that the Los Angeles region is at a crisis point. There is limited additional land on which to grow, and there are few additional resources left to consume, which means that the region can no longer run away from its problems: a distressed regional core, a severely taxed environment, and a fractured governance structure. The report argues that the Los Angeles region should, and can, grow differently.

Download a copy of this report (PDF, 9 MB)

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