This article was originally published in 2013 in The Architect’s Newspaper as a warning that Los Angeles was headed toward a rapidly approaching fiscal breaking point. In greater Los Angeles, we are using more than 60% of our land for our automobiles (roads, parking lots, landscape buffers, traffic islands, etc.). But this misses the core reality: Los Angeles, in its current form, cannot afford to fully comply with HLA. We should be designing Los Angeles for 2075, not continuing to optimize it for 1975. This was once the vision for Los Angeles: the 1970s-era “Centers Concept.” Had it been fully realized, the region might today be admired worldwide.