Los Angeles - City of the Future? (Part 1) 

I watched this video almost 30 years ago on BBC and recently I've stayed at this hotel and I've found more postmodern aspects of this hotel. It is a four star hotel with its four star price, but when you go to your room it's a one star room with broken shower, dirty linens and AC located almost in your bed. It makes you dislocated from reality thinking "is this really Bonaventure Hotel or Motel 6?" Someone should go and ask BBC Open University to post the original video with better quality.

Many thanks for this upload. There was a short clip of Soja speaking in this on RU-vid, but not the whole thing.

Form follows function, space not to interact with is always a monumental statement.

Cities will not be healthy until we 1) replace cars with trams and bicycles. 2) replace economies of desperate consumerism with economies of solidarity and creativity. 3)weave permaculture into the structure, economy and culture of cities. My book "Los Angeles: A History of the Future" describes these practical transitions. www.paulglover.org/lahofbook.html

Gallo brought me here

thx for uploading

Thanks its great for my research