Reyner says that Los Angeles breaks all the rules. Those rules were made in old times, by people with old needs, under old systems of government. Los Angeles was all new: the street grid was rigid; what individuals made happen upon their easy-locate lot was free.

A text in the Petersen Automobile Museum describes how car ownership necessitated freeways. They cut into the grid plan of streets and boulevards already placed. The spread of freeways was artificially stopped by public objection. I like the balance thus arrived at.