The Provisional City - Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism

Door: Dana Cuff

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• ISBN: 9780262032766
• Boekreferentie: Architectuur Amerika
• Uitgever: MIT Press Ltd
• Taal: ------------------
• Categorie: Kennis en wetenschap
• Details: Hardcover, Goed
• Extra informatie: 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 prop
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