Editing Greater Los Angeles (section)

===Major business districts and edge cities===
The traditional business district and historical downtown of Greater Los Angeles is [[Downtown Los Angeles]]. However, most commercial activity is found outside downtown Los Angeles in the [[edge cities]] of [[Century City]], [[Wilshire Boulevard]] in [[Koreatown]], [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]], the [[Sunset Strip]] in [[West Hollywood]], [[Universal City, California|Universal City]], the [[Warner Center]] in [[Woodland Hills, Los Angeles|Woodland Hills]], and [[Sherman Oaks]] and [[Encino, Los Angeles|Encino]], notable for existing alongside extensive suburban development.

In fact, the Los Angeles area is considered a classic example of a metropolitan area that developed in such fashion.<ref name="garreauLA">{{cite book |last1=Garreau |first1=Joel |title=Edge City |date=1991 |pages=262–3 |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing |isbn=9780307801944 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_h4eF9H9UtQC |access-date=June 25, 2019 |archive-date=August 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802004543/https://books.google.com/books?id=_h4eF9H9UtQC |url-status=live }}</ref>

Furthermore, since the [[COVID-19 pandemic in California]] Downtown Los Angeles has experienced staggering commercial vacancy rates, urban blight, homelessness, drug use, and crime. Entire skyscrapers were reportedly sold for less than large estates in Bel Air.<ref name="LABizJournal">{{cite book |last1=Welk|first1=Hannah |title=DTLA Tower Sells for $80M |date=2024 |pages=262–3 |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing |isbn=9780307801944 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_h4eF9H9UtQC |access-date=November 11, 2024 |archive-date=August 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802004543/https://books.google.com/books?id=_h4eF9H9UtQC |url-status=live }}</ref>

Within the broader [[county of Los Angeles]] and metro area, areas such as [[Downtown Long Beach]], [[Old Pasadena|downtown Pasadena]], downtown [[Glendale, California|Glendale]], and downtown [[Burbank, California|Burbank]], [[Downtown Santa Ana]], [[Downtown Anaheim]], [[Downtown Riverside]], [[Downtown San Bernardino]], downtown [[Irvine, California|Irvine]], and downtown [[Ontario, California|Ontario]] are notable.