TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cuff,Dana
TI  - The provisional city: Los Angeles stories of architecture and urbanism 
SN  - 0262032767
AV  - NA 7238 C965p 2000
U1  - 307.76/09794/9409044 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Architecture, Domestic
KW  - California
KW  - Los Angeles
KW  - Arquitectura doméstica
KW  - Los Ángeles (California, Estados Unidos)
KW  - Architecture
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Arquitectura
KW  - Historia
KW  - Siglo XX
KW  - City planning
KW  - Urbanismo
KW  - Public housing
KW  - Vivienda popular
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-372) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -