[PDF.01id] The Provisional City: Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism (MIT Press)

The Provisional City: Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism (MIT Press)

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||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| My initial interest was to learn more about the hostile attitude toward affordable housing and poor people, which was amply cove|By james bonar|Found Cuff's Provisional City a fascinating and detail rich overview of how LA came to its history of working redevelopment in support of private real estate interests.
My initial interest was to learn more about the hostile attit| ||"...[A] work of meticulous scholarship and visionary thinking...." Jonathan Kirsch Los Angeles Times

|"[A]work of meticulous scholarship and visionary thinking...." Jonathan Kirsch Los Angeles Times|About the Author

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...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Provisional City: Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism (MIT Press)   |  Dana Cuff. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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