The infrastructural city : networked ecologies in Los Angeles / edited by Kazys Varnelis ; maps by Leah Meisterlin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Varnelis, Kazys.

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--California--Los Angeles--21st century.

City planning.

Land use--California--Los Angeles--21st century.

Land use.

Sustainable urban development--California--Los Angeles--21st century.

Sustainable urban development.

California--Los Angeles.

Physical Description:

251 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Barcelona ; New York : Actar ; [Los Angeles] : The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design ; [New York] : The Network Architecture Lab, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, [2008]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction : Networked ecologies / Kazys Varnelis

Landscape : Owens Lake: reconstructing the void / Barry Lehman ; Los Angeles River watershed: flood control freakology / David Fletcher ; Oil: crude city / Frank Ruchala ; Gravel: margins in our midst / Matt Coolidge, Center for Land Use Interpretation

Fabric : Traffic: blocking all lanes / Sean Dockray, Fiona Whitton, Steve Rowell ; Telecommunications: invisible city / Kazys Varnelis ; Landscape: tree huggers / Warren Techentin ; Mobile phones: cell structure / Ted Kane & Rick Miller

Objects : Property: counting (on) change / Roger Sherman ; Distribution: consumers gone wild / Deborah Richmond ; Props: story of the eye / Robert Sumrell

Picturing Los Angeles: the linear city / Lane Barden : The river: the Los Angeles River ; The street: Wilshire Boulevard ; The trench: the Alameda corridor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

9788496954250

8496954250

OCLC:

179828017