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BLADE RUNNER

Mike Davis’ Beyond Blade Runner: Urban Control The Ecology of Fear paints but a scary picture for what Southern California represents. What many may depict a “bad neighborhood” to be cannot compare to what Southern California has to offer.
California, when mentioned gives me a picture of a sunny vacation and beautiful rich houses. Disillusioned am I. Apparently there are parts of California I wouldn’t be caught dead walking around in. For example, Broadway and Spring streets in Downtown Los Angeles were rioted last year. Windows were smashed and security became overwhelmingly tight. Bullet proof steel doors were pulled down over street level-entrances, “escalators halted and electronic locks sealed off pedestrian passageways.” For this level of security to take place, business owners had to predict a situation like this could occur. I would never think that way. Granted it helped their safety, but to assume the worst of the worst seems far fetched. With that...

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