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The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles
Once the greatest American example of a modern city served by infrastructure, Los Angeles is now in perpetual crisis. Infrastructure has ceased to support its urban plans, subordinating architecture to its own purposes. This out-of-control but networked world is increasingly organized by flows of objects and information. Static structures avoid being superfluous by joining...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
September 15th 2009
by Actar
(first published March 30th 2008)
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A book dealing with infrastructure in a way that is accessible & interesting for a general audience, along the lines of the work done by the Center for Land Use Interpretation (to which the essays make numerous references). Some of the essays I found insightful and well-written, others fell flat. It's a field I'm not really familiar with, so I can't compare it to other books with the same thrust, but it does seem to take a fresh perspective on the issue of infrastructure. The topics range from t...more
Reminded me that I still kinda like LA despite no desire to ever be there.
Seriously, the best textbook on L.A. as place. Conceptualizes the city. The essay on the L.A. river is brilliant. Freakology is my new favorite word.
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