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Governing magazine's John Buntin surveyed the new architecturally distinct police stations the LAPD has been building this decade — and he found something missing. That something is an undefined presence that some in the story argue made the old stations "a distinct and recognizable part of urban neighborhoods." I'm not sure which of the ugly 1960s and '70's LAPD fortresses they miss, but Bunting provides a little slide show of the better new buildings. They seem like a welcome improvement to most urban neighborhoods I've ever seen.
The Valley operations bureau and traffic building in Van Nuys. Photo by LA Observed