James Sanders edited Renewing the Dream: TheMobility Revolution and the Future of Los Angeles,out now from Rizzoli. With contributions from Nik Karalis, Frances Anderton, Mark Valliantos and Unfrozen’s own Greg Lindsay, the book explores the forces behind the change in the mobility landscape of the most famously car-centric city onEarth. Through design provocations and disciplined research, Sanders and the authors see the city on the edge of a mobility revolution, already manifesting in the largest rail-transit-building campaign in America since World War II, that couldsoon see its dozens of square miles of surface parking and 1,500 gas stations converted to “higher and better” uses, including housing and public space around far less-consumptive electric-vehicle charging stations.
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Intro: “Low Rider,” by War
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Discussed:
Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies: 2001, KnopfNew York: A Documentary Film with Ric Burns, 1999
Donald Shoup
Woods Bagot & Renewing the Dream
John Rossant & CoMOTION
Christopher Hawthorne
Party time on the Expo Line
The California courtyard apartment complex & bungalow court
Courtyard Housing in Los Angeles, by Stefanos Polyzoides, Roger Sherwood and James Tice. Photos by Julius Shulman
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Chinatown
La La Land
California transit-oriented development legislation and funding
LA’s transit-oriented communities program
Tesla LED drive-in
Upcoming readings/bookstoreappearances:
Book Soup, West Hollywood, CA: 1/5
TheSkyscraper Museum, New York: 1/23
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Outro: “L.A. Woman” by the Doors