The Aerial Horizon

Amid the chaos of traffic on the freeways of Southern California, it is difficult to imagine a profound sense of order…heat, noise, stop-and-go, construction, on ramps, and off ramps are our experience and our senses of time and distance become warped. But we are too close to the problem. As we rise above the din, our situational awareness grows and we see the whole picture…a vast series of densely packed, geometrically arranged villages interconnected by vast bundles of roadways and railbeds. The plan view spreads out beneath us and the network begins to make sense.