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Apr 2009
By Marco Castroni — Filed under: Awarded Competitions ,Competitions ,Infrastructure ,Politics ,Refurbishment ,Structures ,Sustainability ,Urban Design , cars, Los Angeles, Radical Craft, trains, USA
Los Angeles is often portrayed as the example of the car-friendly city. The traditional image of the town is an endless pattern of single family dwellings, interconnected by traffic-clogged freeways, where transit is undeveloped and the air is choked with smog.
However, Los Angeles is changing. The city’s Transport Authority has planned in the last years a series of measures aiming to improve quality of life through improving transit and walking and providing alternative to car commuting.
