in the L.A. of the near future, Joaquin Phoenix rides a fictitious subway to the sea

As a longtime friend of the design and tech worlds, Garcetti is kind of the perfect person to help make that transition. His former house, where he lived when he was president of the city council, was featured in Dwell, making him an instant darling to the local architecture community. As a city council member, he also pioneered the city's first 311 app; he is a proponent for open data; and he has openly committed to boosting the tech scene. He's also young. As an active social media user who has made some pretty solid jokes on Twitter, the 43-year-old is also perceived as one of the most culturally in-touch and tech-savvy mayorson details last night, Garcetti gave an example of the neighborhood of Atwater Village, where the business district on a very wide and dangerous stretch of Glendale Boulevard had benefitted from improvements made as part of a "pedestrian-oriented overlay zone": medians with trees, cafe seating, diagonal parking, wider sidewalks. The neighborhood was recently named best in the city at Curbed LA, he said. "We can revitalize these villages one at a time."


The MyFigueroa project will add the city's first separated cycletracks

Remaking L.A. streets would be a fitting legacy for Garcetti. He was an early supporter of CicLAvia and was instrumental in appointing the city's first pedestrian coordinators at LADOT, who are now implementing the ped-friendly People St. program. He's adding 40 miles of bike lanes a year as