Intro: “Megeve,” by Henry Mancini Part 1: White-Hot Mid-Century Blowout The Lautner Compound (Hotel Lautner)Lucien HubbardJohn LautnerAlbert FreyFrey House IITamarisk trees“Racist Trees,” the movie, and the blowback from Tucker CarlsonPart 2: Palm Springs Mod Squad tours by Kurt Cyr Transition: “Loose Caboose,” by Henry Mancini Home 1: The Wentworth, Fairway Estates, Donald Wexler, 1965; addition by Robin Abrahams, 2022The Alexander Construction Co.Pilkington float glassCanyon View Estates – Palmer & Krisel for the Alexanders -- home of “Barbie” and “Don’t Worry Darling” Atomic Ranch magazineRoman tubsTransition: “Caravan,” by John Buzon Trio Home 2: Kurt Cyr home, Kurt Cyr, 2020Lawrence Crossley and the Crossley TractWashingtonia filifera (California palm)Hortus conclususKenny Irwin Jr. robot designs, feat. “Winston”Hans WegnerRoom 606, SAS Royal Hotel (Arne Jacobsen)Craig EllwoodDanish case study houses, per Wallpaper*Transition: “Miniskirt,” by Esquivel Home 3: The Desert Star Apartments (Motel), Howard Lapham, 1956; Converted to private residences in 2005“Car decking”Uba Tuba marbleCalico marbleCarrara marbleNichols Company Chinese Art Deco rugsThe Palm Springs School, by Alan Hess, (Rizzoli, 2025)Florence KnollTransition: “This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody),” by Talking Heads Part 3: An Archipelago of Disney Lifestyle Mad Men: Season 2, Episode 12, “The Mountain King.”Storyliving by Disney: Cotino, Rancho Mirage, CASunnylandsStoryliving by Disney, Asteria, Pittsboro, NCDMB DevelopmentIt’s not Celebration, FLCrystal Lagoons – “Swimming pools are things of the past.”Dubai Festival City"Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next"ULI Florida Summit, OrlandoJoshua Harris“The Anti-Social Century,” by Derek Thompson, in The Atlantic, February 2025TestFitGreg’s address to the ULI Global Governing Trustees Meeting, Washington DC“Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community,” by Robert Putnam (2000)Firefly by Candlelight Homes, Eagle Mountain, UtahStonethrow, DallasChristopher LeinbergerTransition: “Terms and Conditions,” by Dan Safarik, recorded on the Teenage Engineering Riddim EP-40 dub machine Part 4: Terms and Conditions of Cotino Transition: “The Community of Hope,” by PJ Harvey Part 5: The Community of Hope Artifacts of an optimistic age:New York World’s Fair 1964Montreal Expo 1967“Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?”, by Mark Fisher“Welcome to the Desert of the Real,” by Slavoj ZizekBNP Paribas Indian Wells Open, sponsored by Emirates Airlines and the Public Investment Fund of Saudi ArabiaThe destruction of the present and perhaps the future: Dubai’s neo-liberalism vs Iran and the rest of the world coming to its doorstep with bombsPalm Springs International Airport Main Building, Donald Wexler, 1966Outro: “Crawl Home,” by Desert Sessions (Josh Homme feat. PJ Harvey)
