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Set inside a Universal City, a mixed amusement park-office-movie and television studio-office park, CityWalk opened in 1993, creating quite a sensation among critics and the public. Writing in the Los Angeles Magazine.com in 2002, writer Ed Leibowitz said of it: "When CityWalk opened in 1993, the critics were brutal. CityWalk, they said, had ripped off its architecture from greater L.A., as if L.A. itself wasn't a mishmash of styles—mission, Moorish, Mayan, Tudor, beaux arts—borrowed from every city on the planet. It was, the critics maintained, a crass shopping and entertainment center masquerading as public space. But CityWalk has pleased the public enormously—70 million have congregated there. People from all across L.A. have gathered here in one great undifferentiated mass, as they rarely do in the city itself. Toddlers are tearing across CityWalk's sidewalk fountain. Salvadoran, Armenian, Korean, black, and white, they squeal as the hidden water jets erupt, soaking their overalls. Hundreds of teenagers who have made CityWalk their hangout are picking each other up and sucking down frozen mochas. Families from Encino to East L.A. are laughing, stuffing their faces, gawking at the bright spires of light." (See Ed Leibowitz, Los Angeles Magazine.com. "The Solitary Existence of L.A.'s Mall Mastermind," published 02/01/2002, accessed 10/24/2024.)

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