The provisional city : Los Angeles stories of architecture and urbanism /

How the modern city is formed through an endless cycle of upheavals, demolition, and debate. The provisional city is one of constant erasure and eruption. Through what Dana Cuff calls a "convulsive urban act," developers both public and private demolish an urban site and disband its inhabi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cuff, Dana, 1953-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Architecture, Domestic > California > Los Angeles.
Architecture > California > Los Angeles > 20th century.
City planning > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Public housing > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Architecture domestique > Californie > Los Angeles.
Architecture > Californie > Los Angeles > 20e siècle.
Urbanisme > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Logement social > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Architecture
Architecture, Domestic
City planning
Public housing
Bouwkunst.
Urbanisatie.
California > Los Angeles
Los Angeles.
ARCHITECTURE/Architectural History/Modern Architecture
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • I. No Little Plans
  • II. Siting Land: The Politics of Property
  • III. Provisional Places with Fugitive Plans: Aliso Village
  • IV. Temporary Abode, Industrial Aesthetic: Rodger Young Village
  • V. Whose Dream, America?
  • VI. Convulsive Suburbia: Westchester
  • VII. Chavez Ravine and the End of Public Housing
  • VIII. At the End, Playa Vista.

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