Map from 1961 Promises Monorail to LA's 'Rim City'

An article in the Chicago Tribune in 1961 explains how "tomorrow's map will be vastly different from today's. Great patches over much of it will indicate the super-metropolis cities which are already evolving out of our once-separated urban centers." Luckily, the article says, megalopolises like Los Angeles "will be saved from traffic self-suffocation by high-speed transportation -- perhaps monorails that provide luxurious nonstop service between the inner centers of the supercities, as well as links between the super-metropolises themselves." LA, the map shows, ends up as a "rim" city, somewhere between San Francisco's "finger" city and the "strip" city of Phoenix. [Paleo-Future]