...Los Angeles has seen in this century the greatest concentration of fantasy-production, as an industry and as an institution, in the history of Western man.... And stemming from the impetus given by Hollywood as well as other causes, Los Angeles is also the home of the most extravagant myths of private gratification and self-realization, institutionalized now in the doctrine of 'doing your own thing'.”
― Reyner Banham, Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies
