| Description |
x, 380 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
I. No Little Plans -- II. Siting Land: The Politics of Property -- III. Provisional Places with Fugitive Plans: Aliso Village -- IV. Temporary Abode, Industrial Aesthetic: Rodger Young Village -- V. Whose Dream, America? -- VI. Convulsive Suburbia: Westchester -- VII. Chavez Ravine and the End of Public Housing -- VIII. At the End, Playa Vista |
| Summary |
"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 property. Scale is intimately tied to degree of disruption: the larger a project's scale, the greater the upheaval. As both culture and geography, real estate plays an equally significant role in urban formation." |
|
"Focusing on Los Angeles, Cuff looks at urban transformation through the architecture and land development of large-scale residential projects. She explores five cases that span the period from the 1930s, when federal support for slum clearance and public housing caused convulsions near downtown, to a huge 1990s' mixed-use development on one of Los Angeles's last remaining wetlands. The story takes us from the refined modernist architecture of Richard Neutra to the self-conscious populism of the New Urbanism. The cases illuminate the relationship of housing architecture to issues of race, class, urban design, geography, and political ideology."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Architecture -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century.
|
|
City planning -- Social aspects -- California -- Los Angeles -- Case studies.
|
|
City planning -- Political aspects -- California -- Los Angeles -- Case studies.
|
|
Housing policy -- California -- Los Angeles -- Case studies.
|
|
Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- California -- Los Angeles.
|
|
Architecture, Modern -- 20th century.
|
|
Architecture -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
|
|
Architecture, Domestic -- California -- Los Angeles.
|
|
City planning -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
|
|
Public housing -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
|
| LC no. |
00030379 |
| ISBN |
0262032767 hardcover alkaline paper |
|
0262532026 |
|
