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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12091216.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""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."".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-372) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 380 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0262032767".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press,".
- catalog spatial "California Los Angeles".
- catalog spatial "California Los Angeles.".
- catalog subject "307.76/09794/9409044 21".
- catalog subject "Architecture California Los Angeles 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Architecture California Los Angeles History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Architecture California Los Angeles History.".
- catalog subject "Architecture, Domestic California Los Angeles.".
- catalog subject "City planning California Los Angeles History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "City planning Political aspects California Los Angeles Case studies.".
- catalog subject "City planning Social aspects California Los Angeles Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Housing policy California Los Angeles Case studies.".
- catalog subject "NA7238.L6 C84 2000".
- catalog subject "Public housing California Los Angeles History 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "The provisional city : Los Angeles stories of architecture and urbanism / Dana Cuff.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".