http://theurbanwest.com Official site of Professor Carl Abbott Mon, 09 Oct 2017 17:35:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://theurbanwest.com/commentary/blade-runner-and-dystopic-los-angeles http://theurbanwest.com/commentary/blade-runner-and-dystopic-los-angeles#comments Mon, 09 Oct 2017 17:35:33 +0000 admin http://theurbanwest.com/?p=354 In honor of Blade Runner 2049, I took a look at the first Blade Runner and the reasons why it very improbably came to stand as the iconic “L.A. nightmare.” The piece appeared in Atlantic CityLab, a site devoted to understanding urban planning and policy:

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