The city of Los Angeles is located in the Western region of the United States. Part two

In addition to his resort and cinema activities, oil production and refining developed rapidly. In 1906, Glen Martin, an aviation enthusiast, built the first American aircraft in a handicraft workshop, and in the early 20s, the Lockheed brothers founded the first aircraft factory. Since then, aircraft manufacturing has become the leading industry in Los Angeles, to which the automotive industry was soon added. The rapid development of these industries began during the Second World War, and in the post-war period, rocket-building enterprises were built here. Now the industrial area of Los Angeles accounts for 3/4 of all aircraft built in the United States, and in terms of automotive manufacturing, it is second only to the state of Michigan. The construction of a metallurgical plant in the suburb of Fontana during the war years was of great importance for the widespread development of mechanical engineering.


Simultaneously with the growth of industry, the port of Los Angeles also developed. Artificial breakwaters have separated part of the water area of San Pedro Bay from the ocean, and the deepened shores are overgrown with berths. Los Angeles is the largest city in the world by area. It stretches for 80 km along the ocean coast, and for 60 km from west to east. The area circumscribed by urban boundaries is 1,200 square kilometers, and the total urbanized area is 3.5 thousand square kilometers. In terms of layout and architecture, Los Angeles is very different from other large cities in the United States. Urban neighborhoods, which until recently were independent suburbs, are scattered across the coastal plain "in complete disarray"; there is no typical center for large cities at all: each urban area has its own "center", or rather, its own central street filled with shops, restaurants, cinemas and other entertainment venues. There are no skyscrapers in the city. The largest 30-storey building of the city municipality stands alone above the 5-6-storey buildings that make up the usual type of development in business districts. The housing stock consists almost entirely of standard individual houses. There are also beautiful mansions in the aristocratic quarters of Hollywood, Long Beach, Passadena, there are 3-4-storey houses in the old quarters of the city, inhabited by workers and small employees, but most of all the same type of standard houses. With the exception of a few regular bus lines, there is no public transportation in Los Angeles, but individual cars of various brands and safety fill all the streets and even cinemas. tsescort.org/trans/spain/