If tasked with listing Los Angeles’s “Asian neighborhoods,” you’d probably first think of well-known immigrant enclaves like Chinatown, Koreatown, and Little Tokyo – or maybe less well-known ones like Cambodia Town, Little Bangladesh, or Little India. Perhaps you will think of one of the many suburbs of Los Angeles with an Asian American majority – places like Walnut, South San Gabriel, or Cerritos. You’d be forgiven, though, if Silver Lake never came to mind. Silver Lake, af

his month’s “Ask Silver Lake” is about bungalow courts, which several readers requested as a topic. Bungalow courts are a type of multi-dwelling housing development that were a very popular construction design in the 1920s and ‘30s. A bungalow court consists of multiple dwellings on a single lot.

On 5 February 2014, the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council considered a motion introduced by councilmembers Anne-Marie Johnson and Dorit Dowler-Guerrero, and stakeholder Al Guerrero, Jr. The motion called for the addition to the Standing Rules a clarification stating that “Silver Lake is not located in the ‘East Side’ of Los Angeles nor is it accurate to refer to Silver Lake as a [sic] ‘East Side’ neighborhood or community.”