TY - BOOK TI - The Infrastructural City: networked ecologies in Los Angeles. SN - 9788496954250 AV - HT168.L8 I54 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - Barcelona PB - Actar KW - City planning KW - California KW - Los Angeles KW - Regional planning KW - Land use, Urban KW - Environmental aspects KW - Sustainable urban development KW - Land use KW - Environmental aspects KW - Urban ecology (Sociology) N1 - 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 -- N2 - 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 ER -