Okay , so as I was reading Mike Davis's "Fortress Los Angelees : The militarization of urban space, I became very lost. Maybe it's just me but this story was not interesting to me at all! I'm not quite sure at what he was trying to get at, perhaps i'll take a shot at it. So, I understand that he thinks that Los Angeles is not the same, and that it's very much seperated by classes, or people. He also explains how things have changed, he says " Taxes previously targeted for traditional public spaces and recreational facilities havebeen redirected to support corporate redevelopment"...so basically the people are getting help or funding for childrens park, but instead big companies are getting the money. He says that once booming towns/cities are now home to a community of different races living in tenement homes, but " will soon fall to redevelopent's bulldozers."
In the story " Goths in tomorrowland" by Thomas Hine, he writes about teens and how it affects culture. In this story he is mearly talking about the, shall we say " goth era", sure we all know someone who is a " goth" I went to school with many people who dressed in black wore shoes with a 6 in heel, and black eyeliner and white faces seemed to be thier thing. Diseny land is supposed to be for happy people, not people who look angrey or sad. What affect does it have on little children? But according to parents disneyland was a safe place. Adults seem to have a problem with the goth trend even today, they usually just don't want to subject their children to it, I just think they don't understand it. All in al this story was better than the first.
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