Los Angeles–Los Angeles!–no longer attracting immigrants

Chapman University urban theorist Joel Kotkin – on a panel that discussed the recent findings – said the decline in the number of immigrants is connected to the suffering local economy, which has been stagnant for about a decade. That decline, he believes, will undoubtedly have ramifications for the city.

“You can go back to Athens, Baghdad, London, Berlin in 1900, New York in the early part of the century and L.A. more recently, they were made and recreated from someplace else,” Kotkin said. “When you lose that and in such a dramatic way, I think it’s going to have some effect on the dynamism.”