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The article focuses on the need for a new school in Los Angeles. A dominant focus is made on the comparison of the two cities Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California. Also, the article presents information on views of Chicago scholars and Los Angeles scholars. The Chicago scholars were, of course, products of their day, excited by the prospect of a science of society and immersed in the unprecedented scale of urban growth surrounding their campus. They took as general what was specific to their time and place, including its topical agenda. Chicago was a place of hierarchically dispensed sidewalk and violent. That such human behaviors and institutional mechanisms affected urban outcomes is not apparent within the ecological frame. Los Angeles sometimes draw attention to their regions as having hypersegregation. But, Los Angeles as compared with other western cities, is less segregated than Chicago or other metropolises in the east and mid-west. In real contrast to the Chicago scholars, there are Los Angeles region analysts who actually look directly at their place, taking in its architectural traditions and econography.