The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles 0th Edition

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ISBN-13: 978-8496954793
ISBN-10: 849695479X
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"With funding now in sight, [The Infrastructural City] reminds us of the unseen physical pieces and a designer's role...The timing could hardly be better for The Infrastrucural City ... A doggedly detailed guide to Los Angeles as a physical thing." --The LA TIMES

"The outcome of four years research on the changing conditions of infrastructure in Los Angeles, this book is a fascinating excavation of the unique workings of the largest city on the West Coast, but one that illuminates conditions found elsewhere." --ARCHIDOSE

"The Infrastructural City will drive you way beyond Los Angeles. The idiosyncrasies, stories and lessons described are thought-provoking enough to make you look at your own city with a more inquisitive eye..." --We Make Money Not Art

"As commissions continue to elude practitioners during the current global economic malaise, architects and urban planners may be left wondering where they went wrong. The Infrastructural City will help them." --Tropolism

"A worthy compendium of invaluable theoretical and practical concepts, and a highly recommended contribution to college and professional architectural studies libraries." --Midwest Book Review

"The Infrastructural City argues convincingly that the layering of transportation, communications, hydrologic and power systems atop one another and atop a semi-arid terrain is giving rise to new hybridized or mutated social-environmental-technological dynamics that are unique and robust and deserving of serious critical reflection....The collection's various maps, diagrams and photographs clear, precise and cross-referenced -- underscore its potential for such covert operations, and perhaps for more mainstream and touristic agendas as well --itineraries for the 21st-century metropolitan flaneur." --Design Observer

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Actar; 0 edition (July 1, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 849695479X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8496954793
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.51 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches
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