where is the core part of Los Angeles?

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I have said this many times before on this forum but looking as a whole, most of the east including the NYC metro is a better example of suburban sprawl gone wrong than the LA region. Most LA suburbs are well built up with no forests in between houses, sidewalks on all streets and services like grocery stores and gas station/convenience stores within a few miles of most places. It's just the core area of Los Angeles which cannot compare with Manhattan, or the Loop in Chicago or even downtown San Francisco. On the whole though, the LA metro is fairly dense.