[BigCityOfDreams]

Brudy, I appreciate your response but you may be projecting? Who is saying that corpses or people shooting up are cool and add to "cinematic experience" these are larger societal issues... People like the Mission in SF, Uptown Oakland, the Historic Core, Williamsburg, East Austin, Wicker Park, Bushwick etc etc for the same reason - they offer an authentic diverse (economically, socially, racially, culturally) urban experience. South Park is great, I walk there often, but most of the folks that live there don't take their guests to LA Live, they take them to a cafe on Spring Street. Removing the grit (read swapmeets, street vendors, dive bars, hole in the wall eateries) will turn Downtown in to an inner city version of Victoria Gardens or the Spectrum (see Santa Monica, Old Pas)