Beverly Hills is its own city with its own permits. A guide to the Golden Triangle, Rodeo Drive, awards season, and the subway arriving at Wilshire and Rodeo.

Santa Monica is its own city with its own permits. A guide to the Promenade, Montana Avenue, Main Street, Frieze week and the rail line that reaches the beach.

West Hollywood is its own city, with its own permits and rules. A guide to the Sunset Strip, Melrose Place, the Pacific Design Center and Santa Monica Boulevard.

Downtown is not one place. Bunker Hill, the Historic Core, the Fashion District, Little Tokyo and the Arts District, and why position inside Downtown decides everything.

A car-first city where the street name matters more than the district, and where demand runs event first, office second and retail third. LA district by district.

Miami’s standard first address for a DTC or streetwear brand, and no longer the cheap one. The warehouses, the murals, the Second Saturday rhythm and where Wynwood stops.

Midtown access without Midtown cost. The Ninth Avenue restaurant corridor, the theater economy, the zoning that limits ground-floor use, and why Times Square is a different business.

A trade district, not a retail one. Space is taken by the floor and the customer is a buyer with an appointment. The zoning, the market weeks, and the sample sale calendar.

The district’s strongest hours are ones most shops are closed for. St Marks Place, the avenues, East 7th and 9th, Alphabet City, and who the East Village actually suits.

Large loft floorplates, a ground-floor retail size cap found nowhere else in Manhattan, and a street that trades hard on weekdays and not at all on Saturdays.