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Why Los Angeles
Los Angeles County is big and so diverse. Spread over more than 4,000 square miles, it is larger than Delaware or Puerto Rico and is home to more than 10 million people. The county reaches from Palmdale to 
Long Beach, and from West L.A. to Claremont. This size and diversity mean that the 65 neighborhoods where we are conducting the survey includes residents from many different backgrounds who live in different types of neighborhoods.
Los Angeles is also a newer type of city. Most of what we know about urban life comes from cities in the east and mid-west. As anyone who visits L.A. knows, the physical layout, social life, politics, and neighborhoods in Los Angeles is different from these older cities. We believe it is important to understand how neighborhoods work (or don't work) in these newer urban areas in which Americans increasingly live and work.
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