Hollywood Blvd Culture

I have recently moved to Van Nuys this year for a shorter commute to CSUN, so I have not had sufficient time to analyze my new neighborhood, but, I basically grew up on Hollywood Blvd, I still in a way consider this location my home and my neighborhood. Hollywood Blvd has certainly always been the de-territorialized and re-territorialized location for culture through the entertainment business, specifically cinema. Think of the Chinese Theater, the culture both in essence and in literal presence was uprooted from China and now is the mark of America, California, Hollywood and cinema in the cultural sense. The construction of the Theater itself consisted of artifacts and material shipped directly from China which was approved by the U.S. government.
The first aspect that comes to mind is when we go to the store and we purchase imported goods, we use the goods that are made in other places around the world and so we are connected through that sense, but also through the flow of money. As economies like China are benefiting from our purchase and we are benefiting from the products, the flow of money creates mutual benefits and this is a link, our choice to buy imported goods not only affects us, but the countries 3. Space in terms of a geographic location has been used as a way to control and maintain power and to segregate society in terms of race or class. We see the constant deterioration of our natural environment as the government continues to industrialize and as technological advancements increase so does our power as a nation, which is what our geographic location provides, the limited and scarce resources are used to profit on. We then create monuments in order to display this power, the massive buildings that replace the beauty of nature. Space has also been used to segregate the people living in a geographic location, whether it is on the basis of race or wealth, this is another way we use our land to control and maintain power, over prejudice beliefs and racial supremacy. History has shown us that people can fight for change, if we want to save the what is left of nature and preserve it we can do this, however, reclaiming what has already been destroyed including the resources we have ruined, is practically impossible. We can plant new trees and maintain resources, promote the expansion of nature as opposed to deterioration, but it is not nearly enough to recover what we have lost, there are certain resources we can no longer bring back and that includes animal species. I think in regards to segregation, control we can fight against this usage of space and reclaim the space as it is our natural right to be able to inhabit it, it is the right of all living beings, we cannot restrict birds from