1. LA is the experimentalist and New York is the hard traditionalist that takes experimenting seriously. LA has already lept into the digital world; it is the largest urban planning social experiment I’ve seen to date.

2. LA will probably be the first to experiment with grid driving on an x-y-z axis.

3. Suburban sprawl has been and is united through its media airwaves.

4. Mass systems which get such a city to operate, also put it inside the system. (This explains a *lot* about the culture)

5. Mass systems lead to less individual accountability, especially in leading individuals to quantify territory as “my personal space” vs “outside my space”.