Gateway Cities
The Gateway Cities of Southern California are those located in southeastern Los Angeles County. There is some cross-over between these cities and those composing South Los Angeles, East Los Angeles, the South Bay, and the San Gabriel Valley.
History
Historically, the Gateway region is the industrial heartland of Greater Los Angeles. The huge expanse of flat land in the floodplains of the lower Los Angeles and San Gabriel rivers proved ideal for industrial development, and large-scale urbanization began in the 1900s. The cheap, fertile land was generally subdivided into long, narrow "railroad lots" aimed at Midwestern and Southern farmers starting new lives as workers in the region's factories. Explosive industrial growth and concurrent suburbanization occurred in World War II and continued throughout the Cold War; by the 1980s, Los Angeles County had become the leading center of industrial production in the United States, with the Gateway Cities leading the way. However, the end of the Cold War and the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico had a devastating effect on the region, and by the end of the 1990s industrial output was far below its historical peak. High-tech industries spurned the area as both lacking in modern buildings and also too polluted and crime-ridden, moving instead to locales such as the western San Fernando Valley, southern Orange County, and Santa Clarita. The logistics firms that grew exponentially with increased traffic at the Port of Los Angeles largely ignored the region as well, instead choosing inland cities such Corona, known as the gateway to the Inland Empire, and Colton. Most of the region's middle-class whites and blacks moved to other parts of Southern California (particularly the Inland Empire) or left the state altogether; the vacuum was filled primarily by persons of Mexican ancestry, with the result that most of the cities of the Gateway region have substantial Latino majorities, with the significant exception of Cerritos, which has a majority Asian population and Artesia, La Mirada, Lakewood, Signal Hill and Whittier, which remain predominantly white.
Universities
 Biola University, in La Mirada
California State University, Long Beach
Southern California University of Health Sciences in Whittier
Whittier College
California State University Dominguez Hills
Community Colleges
Cerritos College, in Norwalk
El Camino College Compton Center, in Compton
East Los Angeles College, in Monterey Park
Long Beach City College
Rio Hondo College
Cities of the Gateway region
Most area residents identify with the city of Los Angeles due to its propinquity, despite living in independent municipalities. The following cities are members of the Gateway Cities Council of Governments:
Artesia
Bell
Bell Gardens
Bellflower
Cerritos
Commerce
Compton
Cudahy
Downey
Hawaiian Gardens
Huntington Park
La Habra Heights
La Mirada
Lakewood
Long Beach
Lynwood
Maywood
Montebello(Sometimes considered part of the San Gabriel Valley)
Norwalk
Paramount
Pico Rivera
Santa Fe Springs
Signal Hill
South Gate
Vernon
Whittier (Sometimes considered part of the San Gabriel Valley)
Also members of the Gateway Cities Council of Governments:
Avalon (on Catalina Island)
Los Angeles County
Port of Long Beach
The following cities are also considered to be parts of other regions in Los Angeles County:
San Gabriel Valley: Montebello, Whittier
East Los Angeles: Commerce, Montebello, Pico Rivera, and Whittier
South Los Angeles: Compton, Lynwood, Inglewood, South Gate, and Huntington Park
Although Carson might seem like a 'natural' fit with the Gateway Cities, it is usually considered part of the South Bay.
External links
Gateway Cities Council of Governments
Gateway Cities Partnership - a non profit Community Revitalization and Education Organization
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