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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.
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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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The Disneyland Resort is getting ready to open again on Friday!
As of right now, Disneyland just held a soft opening for cast members for both parks. Due to the pandemic, the parks have been closed since March 2020 and their guests were excited to be the first to return to Disneyland for the soft opening.
With the reopening of the parks, Disney hired back thousands of employees at Disneyland. All cast members were happy to have their jobs back and are looking forward to bringing guests back in. The soft opening continues through Thursday and the grand reopening will be on Friday.