The infrastructural city : networked ecologies in Los Angeles / edited by Kazys Varnelis ; maps by Leah Meisterlin.
Contributor(s): Varnelis, Kazys.
Material type: BookPublisher: Barcelona ; New York : [Los Angeles] : [New York] : Actar ; The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design ; The Network Architecture Lab, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, c2008Description: 251 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9788496954250; 8496954250.Subject(s): City planning -- California -- Los Angeles -- 21st century | Land use -- California | Land use -- California -- Los Angeles -- 21st century | Sustainable urban development -- California -- Los Angeles -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 307.1216Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Reference | MTU Cork Centre Architectural Education Reference | 307.1216 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Reference | 00179117 |
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Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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.
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- Introduction: Networked Ecologies (p. 4)
- Landscape (p. 18)
- Owens Lake: Reconstructing the Void (p. 20)
- Los Angeles River Watershed: Flood Control Freakology (p. 34)
- Oil: Crude City (p. 52)
- Gravel: Margins in Our Midst (p. 66)
- Fabric (p. 100)
- Traffic: Blocking All Lanes (p. 102)
- Telecommunications: Invisible City (p. 118)
- Landscape: Tree Huggers (p. 130)
- Mobile Phones: Cell Structure (p. 146)
- Objects (p. 176)
- Property: Counting (on) Change (p. 178)
- Distribution: Consumers Gone Wild (p. 206)
- Props: Story of the Eye (p. 218)
- Picturing Los Angeles: The Linear City
- The River: The Los Angeles River (p. 76)
- The Street: Wilshire Boulevard (p. 156)
- The Trench: The Alameda Corridor (p. 236)