Los Angeles, 2030

Los Angeles, 2030 is an intensified version of itself, a city of two American fictions: the detached house and the skyscraper. Two walls within walking distance of Wilshire Corridor formally demarcates and exacerbates this paradoxical suburban-metropolitan condition. Between the walls, unfettered density is encouraged to develop a metropolitan strip; outside the walls, the suburban tapestry remains. The metropolitan strip narrows to allow suburban artifacts to remain in a suburban neighborhood, or widens to intensify the urban experience of major cultural facilities and to maintain already urbanizing and distinct districts. The walls themselves are operative boundaries: infrastructure that produces thousands of vertical plots for housing, public amenities, and urban connectivity along its roof. Though starting along Wilshire, this infrastructure is projected to continue along all of Los Angeles’s corridors, cultivating a network of urbanism and islands of suburbia. The new vision for the American Dream is this operative boundary, the medium that allows two of the most salient American symbols of freedom to coexist.