Word: suburbanization
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This destruction is occurring despite a concerted effort to prevent it. In the past 25 years, nearly 90% of the state's communities have imposed some form of restraint on growth, but urban and suburban subdivisions keep sprawling. The legislature passed laws in 1973 to ensure sustainable management of the forests, but timber companies have replanted new species instead of maintaining existing forests and have cut too often to permit the forest to regenerate itself. And though Los Angeles has made progress against smog, air quality has plummeted in other parts of the state...
...Darren Star surprised his large, tight-knit family in suburban Potomac, Md., by moving to far-out Los Angeles. Within a few years, he wrote and sold the script for Doin' Time on Planet Earth, a film about a teenager who thinks he's from outer space. After that, Star never looked back. Today, at 30, he draws a six-figure income as the creator of Beverly Hills, 90210, the Thursday-night melodrama that has captured the teen audience by portraying youthful angst and L.A. glitz. Star owns a house in the Hollywood Hills, drives a Porsche convertible, lifts weights...
...fads and the ruthlessness of its politics all reflect the mix of races and cultures that blend and clash throughout the state. This is the land where Asian dragons dance at Cinco de Mayo parades, where viewers can tune in the evening news spoken in Tagalog, where suburban developers study the ancient Chinese concept of feng shui to ensure harmonious building design and smooth cosmic energy flow. It is not the Beach Boys or the Eagles or the Grateful Dead who provide the voice of California today; it is Los Lobos, a Mexican-American rock band. Amy Tan novels...
...population grows ever more diverse, it will also become less black. As immigrants flood into formerly black neighborhoods, many black families are deciding that it is time to leave. During the past decade, the black populations in both Los Angeles and San Francisco declined. Many African Americans fled to suburban cities in search of space and safety and jobs. But a great many African Americans are leaving the state, some to return to the Deep South that their parents and grandparents fled years...
This is what gives the middle classes, especially the white suburban the middle classes, their false sense of security. They find solace in the evening news, where they see people who don't look like them, don't dress like them and (the rationalization goes) don't live like them. Fleeing from the perverse threats of 8-ball jacket killings and basketball sneaker shootings, these middle classes fall into the safe, open arms...