Automatic for the City

Chapter 6Los Angeles

Come to Los Angeles! The sun shines bright, the beaches are wide and inviting, and the orange groves stretch as far as the eye can see. There are jobs a-plenty and land is cheap. Every working man can have his own house (and his own car), and inside every house, a happy, all-American family… Life is good in Los Angeles… It’s paradise on Earth.

“Sid Hudgens” in the film LA Confidential, 1997

Practical Study Area: Downtown Los Angeles

To showcase the possibilities of the CAVs approach in the City of Los Angeles, a 0.5 square mile area of the Financial District in Downtown (DTLA) was selected. As clearly evidenced in the famous and still relevant 1970 report Concept Los Angeles: The Concept for the Los Angeles General ...