Biking Autopia
Posted on August 1, 2008
Filed Under bikes, images, out of town, urban design
In his 1973 essay ”Autopia,” Dutch novelist Cees Nooteboom wrote that Los Angeles ”mixes images of vulgarity and vitality” and ”conveys the feeling that it stretches to all sides around you, but never looks down on you or presses you down, an open world that forms itself as a unity despite its fragmented appearance.” (NYTimes)
Enjoy these photos from a recent trip, with my bike, to Los Angeles. Words to come later.
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