{"id":649887,"date":"2025-01-18T19:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T16:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/l-a-s-now-in-a-doom-era-itll-boom-again\/"},"modified":"2025-01-18T19:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T16:45:17","slug":"l-a-s-now-in-a-doom-era-itll-boom-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/l-a-s-now-in-a-doom-era-itll-boom-again\/","title":{"rendered":"#L.A.\u2019s Now in a Doom Era. It\u2019ll Boom Again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tSo far, Los Angeles has had a bad 2020s. First, the pandemic. Then the widespread anxiety spurred by a wave of high-profile robberies and the deadly home-invasion of Jacqueline Avant. Homelessness, of course, has been an epic catastrophe, spurred in large part by the housing crisis. Trust in civic leadership to tackle these social<\/a> problems is low, especially after a series<\/a> of local government scandals. Within the entertainment industry, there have been the prolonged labor strikes, followed by mass layoffs as Hollywood grasps for profit amid shifts in distribution and the onslaught of artificial intelligence. Now, of course, the Palisades and Altadena wildfires have devastated the city.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s a time of doom. But this town has been here before, repeatedly, and it\u2019s important to remember that afterward it doesn\u2019t just bloom. It booms.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe previous nadir was three decades ago. Early 1990s L.A. was perhaps even more calamitous. The end of the Cold War and a recession led to the consolidation and relocation of much of the local aerospace industry. The Rodney King verdict triggered violence that killed 63 people and injured 2,383 more. The next year, a major fire ripped through Malibu, destroying hundreds of homes and later, when the El Nino storms arrived, resulted in mudslides that shut off major coastal routes for months. (Another inferno, then one of the most destructive in the state\u2019s history, also tore apart Altadena that same fall.) It was not long afterward that the Northridge earthquake resulted in 57 deaths, hurt an additional 9,000 people and damaged buildings across the region. This was also the beginning of the production exodus, undermining and scattering Hollywood\u2019s working class, as Canada and then other territories began to aggressively chip away at the local economy with their tax breaks.<\/p>\n

\n\tYet afterward came a remarkably robust period for the city: The return of professional football, the revival of downtown L.A., the establishment of Silicon Beach. At various points it\u2019s been the much-touted envy of the country, even the world, for the dynamism of its art and culinary scenes.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere\u2019s a history to this. In the 1930s the Great Depression hit the region hard. There was also a prolonged drought, a nasty port strike and constant tensions between locals and Dust Bowl immigrants over impacts on social services. Then, for a stretch beginning in the mid-1960s, as the studio system collapsed, the city experienced the Watts Riots, the Manson Family murders, economic stagnation, and the deadly Sylmar earthquake. These respective dark times were soon followed by go-go L.A. eras in the 1950s and 1980s.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe desert city, oasis or hellhole or both, can\u2019t help but bounce back. \u201cLos Angeles has always been a boom town,\u201d wrote one of California\u2019s preeminent historians, Carey McWilliams, as local postwar prosperity took off in 1946 \u2014 even if it\u2019s \u201cchronically unable to consolidate its gains.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s unclear what the immediate future holds for L.A. Perhaps, even likely, more woe \u2014 whether in areas we can identify (the housing market, worsened by the wildfires\u2019 aftermath) or those we can\u2019t. Still, the tide will turn, as it inevitably does.<\/p>\n

\n\tSome things are already in motion. To start: The 2026 FIFA World Cup, and then the 2028 Summer Olympics. Major public transit systems are coming online. The L.A. River and its surroundings are in the process of being vibrantly renewed. All sorts of cultural improvements, expansions, and openings \u2014 most notably George Lucas\u2019 massive, billion-dollar, spaceship-like Museum of Narrative Art at Exposition Park \u2014 are on their way. Oh, and the state seems to finally be getting serious about a tax credit program to be competitive in luring entertainment production back to town.<\/p>\n

\n\tSo, yes, the city\u2019s current plot needs a rewrite. Maybe some new characters and fresh ideas. But this is the story of L.A. There\u2019s no ending, only another season.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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