A motor driven country city, a city which defines movie culture, a city with many centers: Los Angeles city is known by many names and statements. Los Angeles city is most populous city in California state and second largest in the United States of America. Los Angeles city is divided into 80 districts and neighborhoods and the generalized categories are as follows:
Downtown, East, Northeast, South, Harbor Area, Greater Hollywood, Wilshire, Westside, San Fernando and Crescenta Valleys.

But did Los Angeles city ever had a center? Yes, Los Angeles city was previously monocentric (one center). The major center per second World War was the Downtown area. How and why the Los Angeles city gained Polycentrism? The reason for the polycentric Los Angeles city was the population dispersion and scattering. After the World War II, all the resident soldiers returned to Los Angeles city. These soldiers were in need of quite, clam and peaceful places. This developed Suburban housing culture. Now, the people wanted to stay in suburbs. There was a period of baby boom, which required schools and other amenities in these suburbs. As these amenities started developing there was a rise of employment in these newly developed neighborhoods. Thus, the population dispersion from the monocentric Los Angeles city from Downtown towards the suburbs, developed many new centers and gave the newly developing pattern of polycentrism to this City.

According to the definition of Polycentrism, Los Angeles city fits properly in this phenomenon. The definition states that Polycentrism is the principle of organization of a region around several political, social, entertainment, financial centers. Los Angeles city can be termed as polycentric as its population in current situation is evenly distributed in the several centers that it has today. These centers also have characters of their own. Some of them are business districts, some are entertainment hubs, some are political centers and some are purely residential neighborhoods.

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