Design and Architecture
LA Reinvents the Wheel; Artists Honor a Utopian Architect
LA is looking for new ways to keep moving; Marlyn Musicant talks about Union Station and Avishay Artsy explores the centennial of a socialist utopia in So-Cal.
By Frances Anderton • • 30m ListenLA has long been celebrated as a city of “mobility.” But now the region has become so gridlocked people are looking for new ways to keep on moving. Harald Belker talks about the automated cars he designed for the movie Minority Report and the consumer robotics game Anki – and what they mean for real cars. Marlyn Musicant talks about Union Station, celebrating its 75th birthday with a revival of rail transit. And Avishay Artsy talks about a centennial celebration of Llano Del Rio a socialist living experiment in Palmdale and the architect who tried to use design and planning to free women of housework and childcare.
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3 storiesHarald Belker
Recent studies find that LA has among the worst traffic in the nation, with LA drivers wasting around 60 hours annually behind the wheel; the LA 2020 commission found that traffic would not even be relieved by all the new public transit currently under construction; the report found drivers would shave off a mere three minutes from their…
Read the story12 minUnion Station
75 years ago LA was simply bursting with trains, so much so that it was decided the region needed a Union station to consolidate tracks under one roof. This Saturday Union Station celebrates its 75th anniversary with a big public party. And an exhibit opens at Los Angeles Central Library together with a book Los Angeles: Union Station.
Read the story9 minLlano del Rio
Llano Del Rio, a socialist utopian experiment out in the desert, near Palmdale, featured some very progressive planning and home design ideas.
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