Italo Calvino describe Olinda to be an ever expanding city. Hidden Cities 1 describes the process of creating an identical city in the heart of metropolis. Cities grow from specks the sizes of pin needles and grow to in compass the entire city. The old and the new are identically the same. I took Olinda's growth patterns and thought how is los angeles alike it. While Los angeles does not have "mini" los angeles's sprouting out of the ground all around, it does have the minor cities that together compromise LA. Cities like beverly hills, santa monica, glendale, etc. While their all separate cities from los angeles, they all grew up in the heart of the LA region. Since these cities have officially join Los Angeles County and become part of the City. These cities are the growth that Calvino talks about. While not visually and geographically identical, they all answer the same question: they are all a part of LA and have grown from the culture that started in the original city.
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