Talk:Gateway Cities

Gateway to?

This article doesn't explicitly state what the cities are gateway to. Gateway to Los Angeles city proper? Gateway to the Los Angeles metro area? It'd be nice if it could detail what they are gateways to, exactly, and why the term exists, etc. Killiondude (talk) 19:24, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Although these towns are very diverse today, they mostly share a history as nondescript places of an industrial character. Gateway is a made-up marketing concept to provide some kind of identity to this area. In fact, most people in the area identify with the adjacent regions that are better-known, such as the San Gabriel Valley, Orange County, Long Beach, East LA, South Central LA etc. In that sense "Gateway" is an apt moniker, as people tend to be looking towards neighboring areas for identity. However, the Gateway region has slowly been developing an identity in spite of itself. Population densities have shot up into the dense urban realm, and immigrants from around the world have made it perhaps the most diverse region within Southern California, which is saying quite a lot. In reality it is just the space between Los Angeles, Long Beach and Orange County, sharing characteristics with all three areas. On its own it would be a major city of 2 million people or more. But it has been many, many years since any of these towns were actually separate from the region at large, and the region will never be on its own in the future. 70.231.227.133 (talk) 23:21, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

In Massachusetts

"Gateway Cities" is also used to refer to a specific class of Massachusetts cities: [1]. Not sure how we want to handle that here. -- Beland (talk) 17:31, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

History

When did it start being called the Gateway Cities? Why is it called the Gateway Cities? As it is, this page is just a bullet list. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.35.102.176 (talk) 02:34, 18 May 2016 (UTC)