Main entry:

Anderton, Frances, author.

Title & Author:

Common ground : multifamily housing in Los Angeles / Frances Anderton.

Publication:

[Santa Monica, California] : Angel City Press, [2022]
©2022

Description:

206 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
Location of publisher taken from publisher website.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-201) and index.
Multifamily housing and the California dream -- Courtyard housing: marketing a fantasy -- European modernism comes to L.A. -- Post-war housing: embracing the future -- Garden apartments and the green commons -- Courtyard housing rises: affordable and luxury homes -- From the apartment-hotel to luxe loft living -- Going big on creating a community -- Back to the bungalow court: ADUs and the new low-rise housing -- Enlightened landlords.

Summary:

"Living in Los Angeles has always been equated with the suburban single-family home with a big backyard. But for decades, L.A. has also been the consummate laboratory for exceptional experiments in multifamily housing--dwellings centered on shared open space, from the central courtyard to the rooftop garden. In Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles, author Frances Anderton explores that fascinating history--from the bungalow courts and apartment-hotels of the 1910s, through the development of garden apartments, to contemporary mid-rise ‘urban villages’ and co-living spaces. Common Ground features the work of the Zwebells, R.M. Schindler, Richard Neutra, John Lautner, Ralph Vaughn, Koning Eizenberg, Sean Knibb, Michael Maltzan, Brooks + Scarpa, Lorcan O’Herlihy, Shin Shin, and many more. In a time of housing crisis, Frances Anderton makes the case that well-designed, equitable, connected living is tomorrow’s American dream." -- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781626400917 (hardcover)
1626400911 (hardcover)

Subject:

Apartment houses California Los Angeles.
Housing California Los Angeles.
Apartment houses
Buildings
Housing
Los Angeles (Calif.) Buildings, structures, etc.
California Los Angeles

Form/genre:

Illustrated works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 317169
Call No.: 317169
Copy: 1
Status: Available