BRmovie.com: Blade Runner Souvenir Magazine - Official Collector's Edition

Above: A crowded and debris-strewn street in the downtown section of Los Angeles, 2019. Amidst throngs of people, flickering neon signs and traffic jams, Deckard seeks out the missing replicants.

We chose to use the Burbank Studios backlot, the street there, for several reasons. One, it was available to us for a long length of time, and two, it had never been used in the way we were going to use it. It's a streeet that's been seen in a lot of forties movies, and it's been seen in movies that Warner Brothers had made recently. "1941" is a prime example. But our job was to take the street and design it into the future. The whole design idea was to give us a very dense-looking, cloistered look.
- LAWRENCE G. PAULL