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Architectural Review, The, July, 1994 by Francesca Morrison, Elizabeth Young

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Pershing Square is certainly an inviting space, but in this notoriously crime-ridden area, security has not been left to depend on respect alone. There is a small police station in the yellow pointed wedge at the high northern corner. The openness of the design makes surveillance from here and the surrounding streets easy and unobtrusive. The area is brilliantly lit at night and is patrolled by six rangers. The delicatessen also provides a watching presence.

Despite these precautions, the Square is the only new space in Los Angeles that can be truly called public. The hope is that it will bring back those mixed crowds of Anglos, Black and Latino pedestrians of different ages and classes -- a feature of Downtown in its prime -- and that it will be a catalyst in turning around the fortress syndrome that is fast becoming a new characteristic of the city.

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If Pershing Square succeeds in these aims, the words of Carey McWilliams, 1940s Californian novelist, which are inscribed along the back of the sand-blasted concrete bench at the square's southern end, may once again be true for Los Angeles.

'Then it suddenly occurred to me that in all the world there neither was, nor would there ever be, another place like this city of angels ... Here indeed was the place for me, a ringside seat at the circus.'

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Square milieu

Architectural Review, The, July, 1994 by Francesca Morrison, Elizabeth Young

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