The New American Dream

Woodbury Spring 2020

In Collab with: Josue Alvarez, Jose Montano, Raphael Capitulo, Saul Santizo

The New American Dream (TNAD) is a studio collaboration between HDR and Woodbury University, which worked on a new urban development typology for Transit-Oriented Communities (TOC's) in Los Angeles. We focused on the proposed West Santa Ana Branch of the LA Metro system, a forthcoming light rail line that runs from Downtown LA in the north to Artesia in the south and includes 13 stations along its roughly 20-mile length. TNAD sought to question many of the basic assumptions about society embedded in the normative development model, and our findings are intended to be shared with public agencies, private developers, and civil society. The ultimate goal is to bring a new perspective to the conversation on TOC projects in Los Angeles that aligns with the concept of social prosperity.