David Gebhard and Robert Winter A Guide to Architecture in Los Angeles & Southern California, Peregrine Smith: Santa Barbara, 1977, 728 pp.
"The war years also set the stage for an increased dispersal of population. In 1941 the Los Angeles Regional Planning Commission drew up the basic guidelines for development in the next quarter century. Los Angeles was not supposed to be a classical city, with one or two centers but a complex entity with a variety of commercial and industrial centers. The region was to continue to stress the single-family house. To realize this scheme, the private automobile was to be cultivated as the major means of transportation. All this meant a complete devotion to freeways . . . By the seventies when the building tapered off due to the economy and a growing skepticism, almost everyone in Los Angeles was less than four miles from a freeway, the goal of the transportation experts." p. 27