NEXT L.A.: A look at issues, people and ideas helping to shape the emerging metropolis.
“I looked greedily out the window: stucco houses and palms and drive-ins, the whole mad thing, the ragged promised land, the fantastic end of America.”
JACK KEROUAC, On the Road
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