Set within the cosmopolitan megacities of Istanbul, Cairo, and New York, the projects are conceived as real fictions, conjuring novel narrative, aesthetic, and representational forms to reflect the pluralistic postindustrial city Save this article Read more »...
In doing so it debunks arguments by Gordon and Richardson in favor of Los Angeles-style sprawl. Sprawl is not suburbanization generally, but rather forms of suburban development that lack accessibility and open space. Sprawl is not a natural response to market forces, but a product of subsidies...
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Los Angeles County has developed this data-driven, multi-layered Geographic Information System (GIS) planning tool to help guide the efforts of policymakers', both at the County and city level, to respond urgently and effectively to homelessness and to inform the public and community stakeholders ...
In the 1970's, Rayner Banham (with Marshall McLuhan), set the tone for understanding CyberCity/MindSpace with Banham's book, Los Angeles: the Architecture of Four Ecologies, which was an examination of the LA cityscape which used the idea of the moving-gaze rather than the static-gaze as...
Between 2004 and 2013, driving in Los Angeles fell, as it did in much of the United States and Europe. This driving downturn led some observers to hypothesize that cities had reached “peak car,” and to speculate that social media, and other forms of information and communication technology...
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This implies indirect forms of governing the way in which the city is used, which go unnoticed if BIDs are identified solely as a tool to create 'clean and safe' public space. We will substantiate this claim with a case study on the current restructuring of downtown Los Angeles (L.A.)...
50. “Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pac...
city after the 1965 Immigration Act. Los Angeles has also been characterized by polarization, a place of conflict and extremes. It has a long history of labor and capital conflict stemming from its pro-business orientation through much of the twentieth century and as the site of new forms of...