Downtown Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles is the center of the Southern California metropolis of Los Angeles, California, if not necessarily its heart. The sprawling mega-city is so large that its downtown is, in many ways, a district like Hollywood, as much as the leading area of the city. It is home to the city's government, some of the city's major arts institutions and sports facilities, a variety of skyscrapers and associated large corporations and an array of public art, unique shopping opportunities and the hub of the city's freeway and public transportation networks. Downtown Los Angeles is generally thought to be bounded by the Los Angeles River on the east, the 101 freeway on the north, the 10 freeway on the south and the 110 freeway on the west.Downtown Los Angeles can be divided into seven or so major subdistricts: The Civic Center and Little Tokyo, the Fashion District, the Historic Downtown Core, New Downtown (aka Bunker Hill or the Financial District), the old Pueblo and Chinatown, South Park, and the Wholesale District/Skid Row (aka "The Nickel"--for its location on 5th street).
