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Los Angeles began to decline in [[The Fifties]] as crime increased, inner-city neighborhoods fell into disrepair, and huge numbers of people fled to the suburbs.<ref>Because of its vast land holdings, population nominally continued to increase, but even today there's a '''major''' distinction between the suburban ''West Side'' and ''Valley'' and the more traditional, landlocked "City."</ref> Despite many civic improvement projects, things didn't really pick up until the 1984 Olympics <ref>Los Angeles is the only American city to host the olympics twice; the first time being in 1932.</ref> the old rail system began rebuilding in [[The Nineties]] (construction has sped up ''significantly'' since the Great Recession) and people no longer needed cars in the inner city. Having possibly hit the hard limits of urban sprawl, the outer suburbs are now in significant decline following the subprime mortgage bust while Los Angeles and nearby cities like Pasadena continue re-building-up.

 

Los Angeles itself is often a metaphor for ''change'', as both a positive and a negative force. People come to Los Angeles, in reality as well as in fiction, to reinvent themselves.