Downtown Los Angeles needs housing and culture -- not another massive edifice, writes urban critic William Fulton.
"Death Star Row is getting pretty long in L.A. There are the cathedral, the Music Center, Disney Hall, the vacant office buildings around Pershing Square, Staples Center, the Convention Center and now the possible football stadium. The theory seems to be that if you stick enough of these edifices downtown, people will think downtown is the center of something. All these institutions operate more or less the same way: People from other parts of the city or county drive into parking garages, travel through walkways and in elevators to the event they're attending, then depart--leaving behind little trace they were ever there. In other words, these edifices operate like the Death Star in the "Star Wars" movies."
Thanks to Laura Kranz
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