3.3. Choice of Case Within a Complex Adaptive Systems Framework

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3.4. Hypotheses and Purpose

52

3.5. Summary of Methodology

53

Chapter 4:
The Narrative Story:
Revitalizing a Neighborhood

55

4.1. Introduction

55

4.2. “Here comes the subway”

59

4.3. The 1990s: A Turbulent Time

70

4.4. Two Thousand and Beyond:
New Mesoamerica Begins to Shine

87

Chapter 5:
Regulating the Immigrants' Milieu:
Co-evolutionary Adaptation in the Revitalization of Los Angeles' MacArthur Park Neighborhood

99

5.1. Introduction

99

5.2. What is Informality?

101

5.3. The Home Depot Project: A Worker Center and Starbucks Come to MacArthur Park

104

5.4. Limits to Formalization: Self-Organizing Street Vendors and Efforts to Control Them

124

5.5. Gazing Over or “Overlooking” Los Miqueros: Regulatory Responsibility

146

5.6. Conclusion

149

Chapter 6:
From Warrior Cops Toward Community Policing: Co-evolutionary Processes and an Analysis of the Mechanisms by Which They Took Place

153

6.1. Introduction

153

6.2. MacArthur Park's Troubled Past as LA's Violent Epicenter of Drugs and Crime

154