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Originally Posted by LA21st
No.
LA was built around the red car lines first, and thats when many of it's walkable districts formed, even in far flung areas like Van Nuys.
No other sun belt city was built like that, so it can't be duplicated with them.
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No the real reason is because LA grew up earlier on than Houston and some other sunbelt cities. Houston, Dallas, etc., all had interurban rail systems in the inner city. LA's was more extensive due to SoCal being a more populated area. They still have districts where you can tell were hubs. The rails got ripped up for the same reasons they were ripped up in LA. You can go look at pictures of Houston or Dallas from the early 1900s up until about the 50s and they had packed downtowns with rail rolling through. Until the early 90s, LA was the largest US city without a rail line. It has a lot of bones of an older city (even some rust belt), but it was definitely a lot more suburban and somehwat similar to how a lot of the sunbelt is today in a lot of ways.