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Design and Architecture

Riding the Expo Line, High Rise Horrors

Hosted by Frances Anderton May. 10, 2016
All aboard the Expo Line! Starting May 20 you can ride all the way from downtown LA to Santa Monica for the first time in over six decades. Metro officials say this is part of a future where cars are just one of several viable modes of transportation in Los Angeles. And, the director and producer of the new dystopian film High-Rise talk about architecture as a storytelling device to tell a story about class and morality.

Photo: Elected officials, Metro board members and the press were invited to take a test ride on the Expo Line extension on May 9, 2016. (Rob LaFond)

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Riding the Expo Line

The last time Los Angeles residents were able to take a train to the beach, it was the Red Car in 1953. But on May 20, Angelenos will be able to board an Expo Line train in...

14 min

High Rise Horrors

You may have seen Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun or David Cronenberg's Crash. They're both stories based on books by J.G. Ballard. Now a movie has been made about a...

16 min

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Frances Anderton

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Frances Anderton, Avishay Artsy

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