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9788496954250

The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles

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  • ISBN13:

    9788496954250

  • ISBN10:

    8496954250

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-12-01
  • Publisher: Actar-D
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Summary

"Once the greatest American example of a modern city served by infrastructure, Los Angeles is now in perpetual crisis." "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."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Kazys Varnelis is the Director of the Network Architecture Lab at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Varnelis is on the architecture faculty at Columbia and is a member of the founding faculty of the School of Architecture at the University of Limerick, Ireland.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Networked Ecologiesp. 4
Landscapep. 18
Owens Lake: Reconstructing the Voidp. 20
Los Angeles River Watershed: Flood Control Freakologyp. 34
Oil: Crude Cityp. 52
Gravel: Margins in Our Midstp. 66
Fabricp. 100
Traffic: Blocking All Lanesp. 102
Telecommunications: Invisible Cityp. 118
Landscape: Tree Huggersp. 130
Mobile Phones: Cell Structurep. 146
Objectsp. 176
Property: Counting (on) Changep. 178
Distribution: Consumers Gone Wildp. 206
Props: Story of the Eyep. 218
Picturing Los Angeles: The Linear City
The River: The Los Angeles Riverp. 76
The Street: Wilshire Boulevardp. 156
The Trench: The Alameda Corridorp. 236
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