The Infrastructural City : networked ecologies in Los Angeles. / txt
edited by Kazys Varnelis ; maps by Leah Meisterlin.
- 251 p. ill. (chiefly col.) ; maps (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm. book
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : Networked ecologies Kazys Varnelis -- 18 Landscape : 20 Owens Lake: reconstructing the void Barry Lehman -- 34 Los Angeles River watershed: flood control freakology David Fletcher -- 52 Oil crude city Frank Ruchala -- 66 Gravel margins in our midst Matt Coolidge, Center for Land Use Interpretation -- 100 Fabric : 102 Traffic blocking all lanes Sean Dockray, Fiona Whitton, Steve Rowell -- 118 Telecommunications invisible city Kazys Varnelis ; Landscape: tree huggers Warren Techentin -- 146 Mobile phones cell structure Ted Kane & Rick Miller -- 176 Objects : 178 Property counting (on) change Roger Sherman -- 206 Distribution: consumers gone wild Deborah Richmond -- 218 Props: story of the eye Robert Sumrell -- Picturing Los Angeles: the linear city Lane Barden : 76 The river: the Los Angeles River -- 156 The street: Wilshire Boulevard -- 236 The trench: The Alameda Corridor --
Looks at the resulting urban condition: networked, codependent ecosystems of environmental mitigation, land-use organization, and service delivery, to chart a new atlas for twenty-first-century Los Angeles and cities worldwide" -- from p.[4] of cover.
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