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Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, as the writer Octavia Butler once mused in a notebook, “forms and shatters, forms and shatters.” This has never been a place with a conventional relationship to its history. Advertisement Where little blue plaques and carefully preserved structures have proliferated elsewhere, L.A. s official stance on the past has typically been both grander and more opaque heavily romanticized, carefully edited, booster-ized, whitewashed and perpetually repackaged in service of whatever comes next. “We have always had our civic gaze fixed on the future,” Christopher Hawthorne, the city’s first chief design officer and a former Times architecture critic, told me. “To the extent that we have had a coherent sense of identity, it has been very much shaped by that perspective.”

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