The infrastructural city: Networked ecologies in Los Angeles
Once the greatest American example of a modern city served by infrastructure, Los Angeles is now in crisis. Infrastructure has ceased to support architecture's plans for the city. This provocative collection looks at infrastructure as a way of mapping residents' place in the city, remaining optimistic about the role of architecture to affect change. Facing angry homeowners, empty city coffers, and rising expenses, city planners can no longer simply build new infrastructure to solve problems. Th…
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- Full title :The infrastructural city : Networked ecologies in Los Angeles
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Once the greatest American example of a modern city served by infrastructure, Los Angeles is now in crisis. Infrastructure has ceased to support architecture's plans for the city. This provocative collection looks at infrastructure as a way of mapping residents' place in the city, remaining optimistic about the role of architecture to affect change. Facing angry homeowners, empty city coffers, and rising expenses, city planners can no longer simply build new infrastructure to solve problems. This book 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.
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- Publication Date:2008
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Actar
- Place of Publication:Barcelona
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2008
The Physical Object
- Description:251 s. : : illustrations, maps ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9788496954250, 8496954250
- oclc:ocn477022895
Table of Contents
Owens Lake -- recontructing the void
Los Angeles River Watershed -- Flood control freakology
Oil -- crude city
Gravel -- Margins in our midst
Traffic -- Blocking all Lanes
Telecommunications -- Invisible City
Landscape -- Tree Huggers
Mobile Phones -- Cell Structure
Property -- Counting (on) Change
Distribution -- Consumers gone wild
Drops -- Story of the Eye
The River -- The Los Angeles River
The Street -- Wilshire Boulevard
The Trench -- The Alameda Corridor
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