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"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.
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Domestic Architecture, City planning, Public housing, Architecture, History, Cities and towns, united states, Architecture, united states, Los angeles (calif.), Housing policy, Case studies, Architecture domestique, Urbanisme, Histoire, Logement social, Bouwkunst, Urbanisatie, Modern Architecture, Social aspects, Political aspectsShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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The Provisional City: Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism
September 9, 2002, The MIT Press
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0262532026 9780262532020
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The Provisional City: Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism
April 9, 2001, The MIT Press
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0262032767 9780262032766
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