![]() ![]() writers to consider those questions: essayist D.J. Why is Los Angeles frequently viewed in such exaggerated terms? Why does so much of what is written about it fail to capture its scale, its diversity, its complexity and its ordinariness? What is the best way in which to look at this sprawling concrete carpet of a city? It has been hailed as utopia, and it has been described as the end of the line for the American dream. ![]() It has been touted as Shangri-La for the creative classes, even as it serves as a symbol of the apocalypse with its combination of fires, drought and occasional biblical rains. It has been hailed as a natural paradise and derided as a traffic-clogged urban mess. Los Angeles is a city swaddled in blanket pronouncements. ![]()
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