The Car in 2035

The Car in 2035: Mobility Planning for the Near Future focuses on the car, the street, and public policy in Southern California. In this collection of essays and images, the car is viewed as both a challenge and benefit to our neighborhoods, cities, and suburbs. Despite rising fuel prices, the automobile will be Southern California's primary form of transportation in 2035 because the region's population will continue to be dispersed widely, and the car offers the best access to the area's tremendous diversity of economic, social, recreational, and cultural opportunities. But the infrastructure will need to accommodate a heterogeneous mix of modes of transportation, including more cars on the road than today.

Kati Rubinyi is project director of the Car Future Group and the founder of the non-profit Civic Projects Foundation. Civic Projects initiates and develops creative public benefit projects, experimenting with new approaches that combine planning and design. Rubinyi did innovative work for The Planning Center, a consulting firm in Orange County, California, and previously was an instructor in architectural history and design studio. This followed years with architecture firms, working mostly on institutional buildings. Originally from Montreal, Canada, Rubinyi has a B.A. in philosophy and a B.Arch. degree in professional architecture. She received architectural registration in 1998 before moving to Southern California to pursue an M.F.A. from the Art Center College of Design?s graduate fine art
program.