Intro: “Megeve,” by Henry Mancini

Part 1: White-Hot Mid-Century Blowout

• The Lautner Compound (Hotel Lautner)
• Lucien Hubbard
• John Lautner
• Albert Frey
• Frey House II
• Tamarisk trees
• “Racist Trees,” the movie, and the blowback from Tucker Carlson

Part 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, 2022
• The Alexander Construction Co.
• Pilkington float glass
• Canyon View Estates – Palmer & Krisel for the Alexanders -- home of “Barbie” and “Don’t Worry Darling” 
• Atomic Ranch magazine
• Roman tubs

Transition: “Caravan,” by John Buzon Trio

• Home 2: Kurt Cyr home, Kurt Cyr, 2020
• Lawrence Crossley and the Crossley Tract
• Washingtonia filifera (California palm)
• Hortus conclusus
• Kenny Irwin Jr. robot designs, feat. “Winston”
• Hans Wegner
• Room 606, SAS Royal Hotel (Arne Jacobsen)
• Craig Ellwood
• Danish 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 marble
• Calico marble
• Carrara marble
• Nichols Company Chinese Art Deco rugs
• The Palm Springs School, by Alan Hess, (Rizzoli, 2025)
• Florence Knoll

Transition: “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, CA
• Sunnylands
• Storyliving by Disney, Asteria, Pittsboro, NC
• DMB Development
• It’s not Celebration, FL
• Crystal Lagoons – “Swimming pools are things of the past.”
• Dubai Festival City
• "Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next"
• ULI Florida Summit, Orlando
• Joshua Harris
• “The Anti-Social Century,” by Derek Thompson, in The Atlantic, February 2025
• TestFit
• Greg’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, Utah
• Stonethrow, Dallas
• Christopher Leinberger

Transition: “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 1964
• Montreal Expo 1967
• “Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?”, by Mark Fisher
• “Welcome to the Desert of the Real,” by Slavoj Zizek
• BNP Paribas Indian Wells Open, sponsored by Emirates Airlines and the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia
• The 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 bombs
• Palm Springs International Airport Main Building, Donald Wexler, 1966

Outro: “Crawl Home,” by Desert Sessions (Josh Homme feat. PJ Harvey)