Finally, there was the concept of one-stop shopping at a place where businesses operated in concert and to which one could drive, thence, park and reach the stores conveniently -- an experience that regional malls and dozens of smaller shopping centers allowed Angelenos to take for granted by 1960, but which seemed very novel when it was introduced to the previous generation in the guaranteed neighborhood.

(Afterword) The patterns remain omnipresent in a landscape that some welcome, some merely accept, and others find vile, but that all of us are just beginning to understand.