Walking around downtown Long Beach I realized this is the future. Edgy. Dangerous. Colorful. Chaotic. A mix of energy and despair, people succeeding and people crushed. And downtown everyone living cheek-by-jowl, the same block with high-end lofts, middle-income condos, and inexpensive apartments. In places trash in the street, and not far away, pocket public gardens. A young woman sporting a brightly colored hijab pushing a baby in a perambulator, a young man with dreads running the length of his back... Read more