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

Title & Author:

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

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.

Description:

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

Notes:
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.

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"--Page 4 of cover

ISBN:

9788496954250
8496954250

Subject:

City planning California Los Angeles 21st century.
Land use California Los Angeles 21st century.
Sustainable urban development California Los Angeles 21st century.
Utilisation du sol Californie Los Angeles 21e siècle.
Urbanisme durable Californie Los Angeles 21e siècle.
City planning.
Land use.
Sustainable urban development.
California Los Angeles.

Added entries:

Varnelis, Kazys.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 260276
Call No.: BIB 191189
Status: Available

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