Los Angeles’ reputation as a reluctant metropolis—a city without much in the way of urban lifestyle—has been well deserved. Just 15 years ago, you’d be hard-pressed to describe its most densely built areas as residential (or desirable). Fed by the culture of freeways, the city’s predominant housing type has been the quasi-suburban sprawl of single- or two-family houses, intermingled with “dingbats,” those small, boxy, cheaply constructed buildings with a couple of stories of apartments over grade-level parking and grandiose names such as “The Capri” or “La Traviata.”
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