‘Blade Runner’ was set in 2019. What does it tell us about the cities and real estate of today and tomorrow?

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By Mike Phillips | Bisnow

Los Angeles, 2019. It is jarring to realize, but we are living in the future, or at least, the future imagined by director Ridley Scott in his 1982 science fiction classic, “Blade Runner”.  “Blade Runner” is one of the most visually iconic sci-fi films of all time, set in a dystopian version of Los Angeles, where it seems to be permanently dark and raining. The city is almost as much of a character as Harrison Ford’s police officer, Rick Deckard, and the “more human than human” replicants he hunts down.

And for that reason, it is worth looking at what the film got right and wrong about the city of the future as imagined 37 years ago. How the city and real estate imagined in “Blade Runner” actually evolved tells us a lot about the world now, and something about where we are going as well.

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