<p>On the USC website are photos of the campus. I suggest you look at those. SC is located in an urban area. I would say the surrounding area was apartments, small houses and stores along the bigger streets. It is not lined with tenements or public housing as I saw in Philadelphia or Newark.</p>
<p>In the U.S. there are other urban universities such as Georgia Tech, Univ.of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Fordham and NYU. </p>
<p>The city location offers you access to many cultural events, museums, Los Angeles Symphony, art galleries, ethnic dining and theatres. The metro system has stations at SC, but the line will not be completed until 2012.</p>