NEXT L.A. / A look at issues, people and ideas helping to shape the emerging metropolis
“The city [from the air] seems dead as a putrefying squid with plastic varicose veins stapled into a plastic belly . . . the veins are freeways carved into Los Angeles like the scars of Andy Warhol’s abdomen.” --HARRISON SALISBURY, “Travels Around America”
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