Design and Architecture
Getting High Speed Rail Right; What Makes a House a Home?
High Speed Rail works when it connects people and businesses. Joe Mathews and Sam Lubell ask, will California’s bullet trains do that? What makes a house a home? A look at how designers create "homes" for absentee owners, and how the home-less create a sense of home.
By Frances Anderton • • 29m ListenHigh Speed Rail works when it connects people and businesses. Will California’s bullet trains do that? Joe Mathews and Sam Lubell consider Germany’s system, Anaheim’s ARTIC, LA’s Union Station and the road to connectivity. What makes a house a home? A social historian examines the 500-year evolution of home. LA designers talk about creating "homes" for absentee property owners; and KCRW’s Anna Scott reflects on how the home-less create a sense of home.
Photo: ARTIC, the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (Alex Hallajian)
In this episode
4 storiesCan High-Speed Rail Connect Us?
Columnist Joe Mathews recently visited Germany and experienced high-speed rail for the first time (on a 300-km-per-hour train from Frankfurt to Cologne), and was frightened. But he also marveled at how German high-speed rail stations combine so many different kinds of transportation and draw people.
Read the story9 minThe Making of Home
The holiday season brings to mind images of home -- and gathering with friends and family around the dinner table, or the fire in low-lit living rooms. But what does home really mean? And when is a house not a home?
Read the story6 minDesigning "Home" When the House Is Empty
There has been an explosion of huge houses and condos in in Los Angeles, London and other global cities purchased by overseas buyers who rarely set foot in these properties. Yet typically these houses are given fabulous makeovers. Does that make them "homes?"
Read the story8 minCreating a Sense of Home, Without a House to Live In
LA has a rich fabric of houses, and KCRW Press Play producer Anna Scott is exploring some of them for a series called LA Dwellings . But she found herself reflecting on the definition of home when she reported on a homeless encampment in West LA.
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