I had never really wanted to visit Los Angeles before, but now I definitely don’t want to. If what Davis is describing is close to reality, it sounds like an awful, racist, classist, city of the rich. I’d like to stay far away from Los Angeles. I definitely subscribe more to Olmsted’s philosophy of public space: it should be common ground for people of all classes, races, religions, and so forth. What’s going on in Los Angeles, its shameless and deliberate militarization, is just plain wrong. Los Angeles is not only wrongfully pandering to the wealthy, but it does so at the purposeful expense of the poor. It is immoral, irresponsible, and frankly, criminal. Los Angeles is not ignoring the needs of the majority of its citizens – it is consciously denying them. This is no way to promote a healthy, happy, and productive city. I believe by being so short-sighted, Los Angeles developers and legislators are poisoning the future of the City of Angels.