The Alliance, backed by its longshore union allies, were adamant that Terminal 46 should remain a container-shipping facility, even though international container ships stopped calling there in 2019.
With the opening of architect Peter Zumthor's new $724 million David Geffen building, a 110,000-square-foot concrete arc curving across Wilshire Boulevard and replacing the old hodgepodge, LACMA has made a bold statement not just with a building, but about what it believes is the museum's role in contemporary culture.
The default thinking is that socialist system is rigid and clumsy, while capitalist system is efficient and responsive. Why then has the opposite happened, as with Seattle’s light rail vs China’s high-speed rail?