Talk:Downtown Los Angeles

message: Hi there, I'm researching Downtown LA.  I'm interested in any opinions or stories, or statistics about the area or the people who live in it.  I'm also interested in the current issues that are pressing in Downtown, either in the economy or any other social situation.  Please help to create this discussion arena. Thank you.-— Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.163.100.137 (talk) 04:29, 26 January 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That was seven years ago. Still interested? -- AlikaAlex 16:29, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Research

message: For those of us living outside of, and unfamiliar with, Los Angeles, this mapless article is disorienting. Someone should do a map, especially of the downtown's various neighborhoods ... c'mmon geographers! ...
FurnaldHall 09:32, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Added two regional maps showing Downtown in relation to the greater Los Angeles area.  Unfortunately I don't have the skills to do a map of the various subdistricts.Rich Alossi 18:00, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article needs a map badly 

message: The previous image of "Bunker Hill as viewed from a parking ramp at USC" did not show Bunker Hill.   As a former resident of both USC and Bunker Hill, I can say without doubt that it is not visible from campus.  Rather, the view is of the Financial District.  Bunker Hill lies on the opposite side (North) of the Financial District and is impossible to see from the USC campus (South).  I have corrected the image's caption and added images of two notable landmarks from Bunker Hill towards the bottom.  Bobak 20:55, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image problem 

message: "Downtown Los Angeles is the center of metropolitan Los Angeles, California, if not necessarily its heart."
I think a better sentence would be, "Downtown Los Angeles is the geographic center of metropolitan Los Angeles, California."  More concise, and the "heart" comment seems slightly irrelevant.  I'm changing it--I'm a novice at Wikipedia, though, so if I've violated some protocol, please change it back!
Mcgillionaire 15:13, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editing first sentence 

message: It looks like the Westlake neighborhood article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westlake%2C_Los_Angeles%2C_California) has claimed City West (although not by name) as its own. Does anyone know where City West ends and Westlake begins? If so, maybe the argument can be made to correct that article.
--Alika 00:35, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  (Central) City West 

message: This news article indicates that Downtown Los Angeles may be in need of a once over. Would you mind reading through Downtown Los Angeles to see whether any changes need to be made. Thanks. -- Jreferee (Talk) 15:54, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Downtown Los Angeles

message: I propose the following outline (which could certainly include many more sub headings):
*Physical Location (include discussion already posted)
*Sub-Districts (the ones listed already plus more)
*History (this could include the height-limit part)
*Transportation (regional hub for train, intra- and inter-regional bus, DASH, Metro lines, freeways, . . .)
*Residential Community (increase in downtown living through loft conversion)
*Employers (public and private)
*Tourist Attractions
*Architecture/Historic Preservation (Adaptive reuse, LA Conservancy, etc.)
*Cultural Institutions (museums, music center, etc.)
*Educational Institutions (USC, UCLA Extension, Colburn School, FIDM, SCI-Arc, etc.
*Athletic Venues
*Shopping (e.g., Fashion, Jewelry, Olvera Street, Electronics, Beads, . . . )
*Downtown Los Angeles in Films/Popular Culture (people will love to add their own favorite film to this section)
*Media (located in and/or serving downtown, e.g. La Opinion, LA Daily Journal, Downtown News, LA Times, Garment & Citizen, etc.
:I don't know the wiki-etiquette for this, but the current entry really needs to be scrapped and re-worked from the ground up. I will volunteer to do it, but I don't want to get myself into trouble if I take down the stuff that's already there. I could certainly work in a lot of what is there now, but it really, really needs a lot of work.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Poodle90254 (talk • contribs) 00:35, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I completely agree that this needs an overhaul.  As a transportation planner, the entire History section is filled with unsubstantiated assertions that are at best controversial.  The history of transportation in L.A. reads much differently, and "History" should encompass much more than transportation anyway.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.229.138.16 (talk) 04:07, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed on the overhaul.  I've got some time today and will attempt to get more work done.  I put a lot of work into editing the Attractions section (organized by neighborhood).  Please let me know what you think and/or whether the format is improper.  I've been learning a lot about the format.  Also added photos that I took and ones that I was given explicit permission to upload under Creative Commons-Attribution (noted where applicable).Alossix (talk) 17:49, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't mean to be a spoiler, but parts of this article are beginning to read like something out of Wikitravel. Remember, WP is not a not a travel guide. Yours, GeorgeLouis (talk) 19:25, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Gotcha. I will attempt to be more encyclopedic and will look over my edits. Alossix (talk) 20:23, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article is very disorganized and needs complete overhaul 

message: I spent a few days working on the Downtown entry.  I think it's gone fairly well.  New sections have been added and existing sections rewritten for accuracy, neutrality and breadth.  
Check out the new photos, history section (still very much incomplete, but much of it is beyond my ability to write), attractions section (edited to remove 'tourist guide'-type language), construction projects, and my favorite, the public transportation section.  
Maybe curious visitors and Angelenos can get a sense of what our neighborhood's about now.  
What do you think of adding a nightlife/dining section? Is that beyond the scope of this article?
Alossix (talk) 09:56, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overhaul of Downtown LA entry 

message: Howcum Expo Park is in this article? It is certainly not in downtown L.A. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 19:53, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Since some sources, including the Downtown News, LA Times, and area Councilwoman Jan Perry all consider Expo Park to be a part of Downtown, I included that information. It's definitely a debatable topic, and I'm not sure I personally agree with it.  But since it's mentioned as a topic of debate in the very first paragraph of the article, and I cited sources, that's the reasoning behind it.  It's the same with the City West neighborhood.Rich Alossi (talk) 21:19, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exposition Park 

message: How come there is no mention of Jewelry District, Toy District, Skid Row, Warehouse District, etc.?
This article needs to encompass all of Downtown, not just focusing on the affluent areas. There is also no mention of Los Angeles's many scattered homeless residents.
This lack of info makes this article read like a tourist booklet, only designed for those who want to sightsee and spend their money.
And you don't need to mention the Conservancy tours over and over again! Just say that "the conservancy offers several tours of los angeles, including..." at the beginning or end of the neighborhoods section.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Donkeykong3488 (talk • contribs) 20:52, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where is East Downtown? 

message: The coordinates need the following fixes:
* Write here    this shows some place in Asia!
77.181.236.217 (talk) 01:40, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The Geodata looks good to me. Note that the second coordinate is West, not East (which would, indeed, put it in Asia). Someone may have fixed this already, so I changed the  to , as indicated by the template. -- PeachMomoko^talk 01:04, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coordinate error 

message: It says in the area section that downtown L.A is about 8.538 km2 big. That would make it about 80k wide and 90k long. I guess that would be a decimal error?? Marco :-o Bonteburg (talk) 17:53, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Downsize this! 

message: I was struck by a Marketplace PRI story on the (re)opening of Grand Park in dtla, but I have no clue where to insert it or what to call it.  Is this Grand Hope park?  Here's the story on Jul 27, 2012 http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/take-walk-though-countrys-newest-urban-park plus a postscript http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/final-note/walk-park Mulp (talk) 23:07, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It's officially called Grand Park and I believe someone has added a mention of it in the article now. While Grand Park is a public park located in the Civic Center neighborhood, Grand Hope Park is a private park located in the South Park neighborhood.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alikaalex (talk • contribs) 17:05, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  New? expanded? Grand Park 

message: It now says two subway lines and three light rail lines operated by Metro.  What's the distinction being made?  Red, purple, blue, and expo are underground at 7th street at least.  Blue and expo are above ground some of the time.  Gold is above ground all of the time.  Would it not be easier to say "five light rail lines" if that's what we're talking about?— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 17:44, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: You make a good point, though a wording cleanup would be needed (as "light rail" and "subway" are probably not the best terms to use when comparing the rail lines to each other as "subways" can be either light rail or heavy rail). To avoid getting into the weeds on the transit wording, I'll try to update with some more generic wording that still expresses the intent of the text, probably using the term "rapid-transit rail lines" or similar, as that terminology could apply to both heavy and light rail. Some of the Metro station names require updating and I noticed some capitalization issues as well. I'll try to tackle shortly. Alika|Alex 16:06, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  three light rail lines operated by metro 

message: I've removed the Pop Culture section. Nothing in it was sourced, and it simply turned into a long list of originally researched information, none of it very interesting. If you want to put the pieces back again, I suggest they be re-added one just one or two at a time, with sources. See Wikipedia:"In popular culture" content. GeorgeLouis (talk) 15:08, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur with this deletion.  You're doing excellent work trimming this down, by the way.— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 15:11, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pop culture 

message: Why revert that?  You asked for a source, I found one.  You took it out and replaced it with the previously existing bad link and replaced the  tag.  What's the deal? — alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 16:06, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry. I didn't notice. Put it the way you want it. GeorgeLouis (talk) 16:24, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, done! — alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 16:28, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reversion of my edit about flyaway 

message: Sorry for the wholesale reversion. Yes, there are some smaller, notable areas within Downtown, but in my opinion it isn't enough just to say they are Notable in order to have a separate WP article about them. I've refashioned the list to begin with the L.A. Times-supported sub-neighborhoods (all of them now separately cited), and I hope the community endorses the idea that each sub-neighborhood should be deemed WP:Notable only if they are referenced by the usual WP:Reliable sources. For example, the existence of an Old Bank District, Los Angeles could be referenced by citing this story from the Downtown News. That said, I would like to see some more internal links added here. Yours in Wikidom, GeorgeLouis (talk) 17:28, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm ambivalent in the sense that I agree that there should be sources and also that there are sources for the (currently) unlisted smaller areas.  On the other hand, these were hardly controversial additions except for the fact that they weren't supported by the source they were cited to.  Upshot?  I don't know.  Let's re-add them as sources become available, I suppose.— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 17:47, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Smaller areas 

message: From a cursory search, it seems that the term "Central City East" to refer to Skid Row is used only by a business-oriented group, hardly a WP:Reliable source. See here. Maybe the Downtown News has adopted it; I dunno. GeorgeLouis (talk) 17:51, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Clearly correct.  You beat me to taking it out of the Skid Row article.  First time I've had an EC making the exact same edits I was making!— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 18:02, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll bite. What's an EC? European Community? GeorgeLouis (talk) 04:46, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: — alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 05:06, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Central City East 

message: It seems to me that individual businesses should not be listed for DTLA because there are so many of them. See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Cities/US_Guideline#Economy, which really does not give much guidance but can serve as a starting point for discussion. What do others think? BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 20:29, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Comment - I wonder if the criterion for inclusion is whether the business has a Wikipedia article or not. There is a difference between a small not-famous restaurant and Wikipedia notable company and/or a branch of a large corporation. Presumably "economy" would focus on notable businesses and/or those that would appear on a Downtown Los Angeles economic report. WhisperToMe (talk) 20:33, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Economy 

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message: This article seems to stop before the 2010 US Census. There is just one reference to data from that Census, and no contrast between 2000 and 2010. More to the point, what has happened since 2009? Is the Historic Core coming along well, after so much money was poured into it? The organization of the article is good, the photos are excellent, but the story needs its latest chapter.  --Prairieplant (talk) 09:03, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nothing much since 2010 in this article 

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replies: text: I checked over there and, yes, it looks like there are too many closeups. If it were simply part of the landscape, it could be saved. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 17:03, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
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message: Downtown L.A. is referred to as a neighborhood. What should the geographical subdivisions within it be called? I prefer district. Yours, BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 05:29, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Any decision on this matter might affect other Los Angeles neighborhood articles as well, by inference. Or maybe not. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 05:30, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  I made a suggested edit on the page. Feel free to rv or change if something better comes to mind.   // Timothy :: talk  12:45, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  I also addded the Flower District, it is technically in the Fashion District, but it has its own article, so I thought it was worth including, in the same way the Toy District is included, though its also in Skid Row. Again rv/change if a better way to include comes to mind.   // Timothy :: talk  12:52, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I will amend what I wrote above to stress that we follow the sources. If a place within DTLA is sourced as a neighborhood, then we use that. We have Historic Core neighborhood, so I believe that's OK. I haven't checked the source. Our text says: "Downtown Los Angeles is divided into neighborhoods and districts, some overlapping."  I think that's just fine. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 17:21, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  What should the geographical entities within DTLA be called? 

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