open space

City officials agreed to let Cain build by far the two tallest towers in Beverly Hills with the understanding that stacking the condominiums high would leave open space for 8.5 acres of gardens on the 17.5-acre site.

“There’s no place in Southern California like Camp Pendleton when it comes to open space along the coast,” said Bill Fulton, a professor of practice in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at UC San Diego.

In the backfield, quarterback Jayden Maiava faked a handoff, forcing another linebacker to bite on the run, while Lyons sprinted into the open space the play design had created.

Realities that have settled onto L.A. are drifting to Orange County, where the myths have not been altogether uprooted, myths of open space, of suburbs, of “being able to get in your car and drive alone to work at 60 miles an hour, being able to buy a single-family home with a big back yard,” says UCI’s Baldassare.

Rumblings are heard these days presaging a future that has already engulfed L.A.: only the memory of open space; a racially mixed, impoverished population; no affordable housing; crime; crowds; beaches fouled with oil--a product of its own gluttony for success.