What makes a city fly apart? It’s not yet clear: Urbanologists don‘t have many precedents. Just as it pioneered so many other lifestyle innovations — swimming-pool-centered apartment complexes, muscle-toned surf bunnies, Kung Pao pizza, free alternative weeklies and an NFL-free major metro area — Los Angeles is now contemplating the self-inflicted mode of urban disintegration known as secession. Our city is once again leading the nation with this latest loco concept.Valley secession, and by extension, Hollywood and Harbor secession, is an idea tragic in its overtones, disastrous in prospect. If the voters buy secession in November, the worst-case scenario says that most any corner of L.A. could go it alone. Why not Century Cityhood? With its lawyerly, high-rise prosperity, its million-dollar condos, its discrete geography, it could be a slam-dunk in LAFCO. Venice and West L.A. residents have already proposed secession. And Echo Park and Silver Lake could become the City of East Hollywood.
Source: Urban Fission | L.A. Weekly