Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 275 pages
- Published by: University of California Press
- Edition: 1st Edition April 2, 2001
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0520219244
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0520219243
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Book Dimensions:
8.4 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches
- Weighs: 12.8 ounces
Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Los Angeles deserves to be read today . . . as a model on how to read any city."
Product Description
Reyner Banham examined the built environment of Los Angeles in a way no architectural historian before him had done, looking with fresh eyes at its manifestations of popular taste and industrial ingenuity, as well as its more traditional modes of residential and commercial building. His construct of "four ecologies" examined the ways Angelenos relate to the beach, the freeways, the flatlands, and the foothills. Banham delighted in this mobile city and identified it as an exemplar of the posturban future.
Reader Reviews
Even though Banham's book was written in the early '70's, it remains a cogent view of a metropolis that has changed yet remained the same. It is a place, yes a real place, that is defined by geography and the various cultures of its inhabitants to a unique degree. Architecture is but a backdrop to Banham's larger point about the inter-relationship of people to the natural and built environments. The perspective of 35 years only sharpens the observations made by the insightful author.
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