If you think Los Angeles is an unplanned city suffering from uncontrollable sprawl, a new exhibition at the Getty Center disagrees. From its earliest days, we're told at Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future 1940-1990, city planners purposely designed L.A. to be vast, eclectic, and polycentric. At first you'd get around by electric train; later, the freeway-everyone's favorite-was overlaid on that system. So please don't compare Los Angeles, the first truly modern metropolis in the world, to older places such as New York City or Chicago.
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