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Los Angeles School
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<p>The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement which emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at <a href="/facts/UCLA/KwPz7AK1">UCLA</a> and the <a href="/facts/University_of_Southern_California/N0v9R5gs">University of Southern California</a>, which centers urban analysis on <a href="/facts/Los_Angeles%2c_California/pyXpYEX9">Los Angeles, California</a>. The Los Angeles School redirects urban study away from notions of concentric zones and an ecological approach, used by the <a href="/facts/Chicago_school_(architecture)/p8p1Iedt">Chicago School</a> during the 1920s, towards social polarization and fragmentation, hybridity of culture, subcultural analysis, and auto-driven sprawl. </p>