James Sanders edited Renewing the Dream: The
Mobility Revolution and the Future of Los Angeles,
out now from Rizzoli. With contributions from Nik Karalis, Frances Anderton, Mark Valliantos and Unfrozen’s own Greg Lindsay, the book explores the forces behind the change in the mobility landscape of the most famously car-centric city on
Earth. Through design provocations and disciplined research, Sanders and the authors see the city on the edge of a mobility revolution, already manifesting in the largest rail-transit-building campaign in America since World War II, that could
soon see its dozens of square miles of surface parking and 1,500 gas stations converted to “higher and better” uses, including housing and public space around far less-consumptive electric-vehicle charging stations.


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Intro: “Low Rider,” by War


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Discussed:


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James Sanders:


Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies: 2001, Knopf
New York: A Documentary Film with Ric Burns, 1999


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Donald Shoup


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Woods Bagot & Renewing the Dream


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John Rossant & CoMOTION


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Christopher Hawthorne


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Party time on the Expo Line


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The California courtyard apartment complex & bungalow court


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Courtyard Housing in Los Angeles, by Stefanos Polyzoides, Roger Sherwood and James Tice. Photos by Julius Shulman


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Who Framed Roger Rabbit?


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Chinatown


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La La Land


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California transit-oriented development legislation and funding


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LA’s transit-oriented communities program


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Tesla LED drive-in


Upcoming readings/bookstore
appearances:


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Book Soup, West Hollywood, CA:              1/5


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The
Skyscraper Museum, New York:        1/23


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Outro: “L.A. Woman” by the Doors


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