1.   Over the decades the once-respectable neighborhood had become an urban cesspool.

2.   An inner-city neighborhood becomes Dodge City, and a surfside California town becomes Baywatch beach.

3.   And the next neighborhood becomes the front line.

4.   And with all of these results, urban neighborhoods become more livable and enjoyable.

5.   And this freedom -- real or imagined -- is one reason the neighborhood has become the preferred site for designers opening boutiques in New York this year.

6.   And with a scarcity of affordable space, some modest start-up operations are forced to stay at the fringes, so the art neighborhood is already becoming diffuse.

7.   As immigration laws have relaxed, these neighborhoods have become increasingly complex, with groups from nearly every region of Asia gaining a presence.

8.   As in South Central LA, urban neighborhoods everywhere are becoming browner.

9.   As the neighborhood became increasingly Dominican, Murtaugh, too, made several adjustments.

10.   A few years later the undesirably Hispanic-sounding neighborhood of Sepulveda became North Hills, even though the highest hills in the place were speed bumps.