The provisional city : Los Angeles stories of architecture and urbanism / Dana Cuff.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2000.Description: x, 380 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cmISBN: - 0262032767
- 9780262032766
- 0262532026
- 9780262532020
- Architecture, Domestic -- California -- Los Angeles
- Arquitectura doméstica -- Los Ángeles (California, Estados Unidos)
- Architecture -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
- Arquitectura -- Los Ángeles (California, Estados Unidos) -- Historia -- Siglo XX
- City planning -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
- Urbanismo -- Los Ángeles (California, Estados Unidos)
- Public housing -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
- Vivienda popular -- Los Ángeles (California, Estados Unidos) -- Historia -- Siglo XX
- 307.76/09794/9409044
- NA 7238 C965p 2000
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-372) and index.
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 inhabitants, replacing it with some vision of a better life that leaves no trace of the former structure. Architects bring their own utopian dreams to the process. In this book Cuff examines those convulsions through two underestimated dimensions of architectural and urban form: scale and the politics of property. Scale is intimately tied to degree of disruption: the larger a project's scale, the greater the upheaval. As both culture and geography, real estate plays an equally significant role in urban formation.
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