Los Angeles is the future

[soup or man]

No big secret to those of us who live here in LA but it's good to see a positive (and pretty accurate) assessment to the recent goings on in this city. From a NYC newspaper no less!


Los Angeles is the future
It can’t stop, won’t stop; check yourself, New York!
By ANDY WANG and DAVID LANDSEL
Last Updated: 12:51 AM, September 25, 2012
Posted: 5:33 PM, September 24, 2012

It is difficult to pinpoint the precise moment when Los Angeles stopped giving a damn what you or we or anyone else had to say — it was a slow but important finding of self, taking place quietly over the past decade. A decade that saw the city grow in all sorts of exciting and impressive ways. A decade of building real transit. (For the first time in generations, you will soon be able to travel by rail between Downtown and the Santa Monica; soon after, expect a subway stop on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.) Of creating truly walkable neighborhoods. The melting pot actually began melting, bubbling over messily and rather beautifully all over every aspect of city life. (Not coincidentally, suddenly here in the land of salad and iced tea, people truly learned how to eat. And to love eating.) Oh, and just for fun? A few more people squeezed into the city, now overall the most densely packed in the country. Los Angeles, quite simply, is ready to challenge anyone. New York, watch your back. Here are four LA places to get up to speed.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainmen...2KUuNx7Xq71J/0

[milquetoast]

At least we have the future to look forward to,

but Andy Wang and David Landsel are being worked over even as we speak.

[pesto]

A nice article. A light and flippant tone, but it does notice some things that some visitors might miss: that downtown is an agglomeration of many districts and is expanding in all directions; that Mid-City West (La Brea to La Cienega) is becoming more urban and is joining up with WeHo/BH/Beverly Center to make another very large urban area.

It even notes that the typical LA resident does not care about traditional urban theories; in fact, the problems that that creates are what they are trying to avoid. LA solutions are pointed at being better than other cities, not like them.

The challenge to NY is unnecessary, but I guess it attracts attention.

[klamedia]

The article hits upon the secret that will eventually make all of these disparate and unique areas one cohesive unit which is the introduction of transit (rail) stitching them all together. It's also telling that the article zeroes in on the "centerpiece" Purple Line subway as a major thread to unity.

[pesto]

Originally Posted by klamedia

The article hits upon the secret that will eventually make all of these disparate and unique areas one cohesive unit which is the introduction of transit (rail) stitching them all together. It's also telling that the article zeroes in on the "centerpiece" Purple Line subway as a major thread to unity.

Rail will not make these cohesive. NY, London, Paris, etc., had transit for a century while Harlem and the Upper East Side (and their like) didn't recognize each other's existence.

But it will make it easier to get from one place to another