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This video is a synthesis of several sources, including:
– L.A.’s Invisible Freeway Revolt: The Cultural Politics of Fighting Freeways: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0096144214536857?casa_token=iCdW3tEK1XgAAAAA:ZBbFvdh-cG-YnpX5n6lNE98BoWQ5triTscTvSByUq_11_sv55i-3rsA-vVK7NmE80r5TaqknGfw
– The Day that People Filled the Freeway: Re-Envisioning the Arroyo Seco Parkway, and the Urban Environment in Los Angeles: https://escholarship.org/content/qt93z9j60t/qt93z9j60t.pdf
– Planning for Cars in Cities: Planners, Engineers, and Freeways in the 20th Century: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01944360802640016?casa_token=HBPG8WrTN5kAAAAA:XI4MnUAdej4SA4-wOq8XYLJfIWCVPDg-gEhSTz65RSXzRzZbaC26LpstAUDzREQku51wLJbChLQ
– When Finance Leads Planning: Urban Planning, Highway Planning, and
Metropolitan Freeways in California: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0739456X0002000206
– https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/documents/traffic-effects-research
– https://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-road-noise-20160109-story.html
– https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/la-metro-transportation-plan-congestion-equity/585935/
– https://media.metro.net/2020/LRTP-2020-Final.pdf
Produced by Dave Amos in sunny San Luis Obispo, California.
Edited by Ryan Alva in Los Angeles, California.
Audio by Eric Schneider in cloudy Cleveland, Ohio.
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