Design

The Hunt for Unbuilt Los Angeles

An upcoming exhibit reveals the L.A. that might have been.

Los Angeles with a ton of public parks, a delightful international airport, and a pedestrian-only civic center just wouldn't really be Los Angeles. But once upon a time, if a few big architectural plans had been approved, it might have been. That sort of nostalgia for the nonexistent is behind "Never Built: Los Angeles" — an upcoming museum exhibit, being funded right now on Kickstarter, featuring a collection of "visionary works that had the greatest potential to reshape the city."