Author: California. Division of HighwaysPublisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The City That Never Was
Author: Christopher MarcinkoskiPublisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781616893903
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
One of the most troubling consequences of the 2008 global financial collapse was the midstream abandonment of several large-scale speculative urban and suburban projects. The resulting scars on the landscape, large subdivisions with only marked-out plots and half-finished roads, are the subject of The City That Never Was, an eye-opening look at what happens when development, particularly what the author calls "speculative urbanization" is out of sync with financial reality. Presenting historical and recent examples from around the world—from the sprawl of the US Sun Belt and the unoccupied towns of western China, to the "ghost estates" of Ireland—and focusing on case studies in Spain, Marcinkoski proposes an ecologically based model in place of the capricious economic and political factors that typically drive development today.
Everything Now
Author: Rosecrans BaldwinPublisher: MCD
ISBN: 0374721076
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER. NAMED A BEST CALIFORNIA BOOKS OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES A provocative, exhilaratingly new understanding of the United States’ most confounding metropolis—not just a great city, but a full-blown modern city-state America is obsessed with Los Angeles. And America has been thinking about Los Angeles all wrong, for decades, on repeat. Los Angeles is not just the place where the American dream hits the Pacific. (It has its own dreams.) Not just the vanishing point of America’s western drive. (It has its own compass.) Functionally, aesthetically, mythologically, even technologically, an independent territory, defined less by distinct borders than by an aura of autonomy and a sense of unfurling destiny—this is the city-state of Los Angeles. Deeply reported and researched, provocatively argued, and eloquently written, Rosecrans Baldwin's Everything Now approaches the metropolis from unexpected angles, nimbly interleaving his own voice with a chorus of others, from canonical L.A. literature to everyday citizens. Here, Octavia E. Butler and Joan Didion are in conversation with activists and astronauts, vampires and veterans. Baldwin records the stories of countless Angelenos, discovering people both upended and reborn: by disasters natural and economic, following gospels of wealth or self-help or personal destiny. The result is a story of a kaleidoscopic, vibrant nation unto itself—vastly more than its many, many parts. Baldwin’s concept of the city-state allows us, finally, to grasp a place—Los Angeles—whose idiosyncrasies both magnify those of America, and are so fully its own. Here, space and time don’t quite work the same as they do elsewhere, and contradictions are as stark as southern California’s natural environment. Perhaps no better place exists to watch the United States’s past, and its possible futures, play themselves out. Welcome to Los Angeles, the Great American City-State.
California City and Unincorporated Place Names
Author: California. Division of HighwaysPublisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
City of Quartz
Author: Mike DavisPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0712666230
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Recounts the story of Los Angeles. He tells a tale of greed, manipulation, power and prejudice that has made Los Angeles one of the most cosmopolitan and most class-divided cities in the United States.
California Cities Work Together Through the League of California Cities
Author: League of California CitiesPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
California City Government
Author: John Constantinus BollensPublisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Forms of municipal government in California.
California City and Unincorporated Place Names
Author: California. Department of TransportationPublisher:
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Category : Names
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
California City and Unincorporated Place Names
Author: California City and Unincorporated Place Names, A to Z
Author: California. Department of TransportationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
A Country Called California
Author: Stephen WhitePublisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 1626401055
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A book of fine-art photography featuring the visual history of California. A Country Called California traces the development of the Golden State from the nineteenth century on, through to its emergence as the fifth largest economy in the world—all as seen through the eyes of photographers whose names are synonymous with fine art photography: Carleton E. Watkins, Dorothea Lange, Eadward Muybridge, Will Connell, Edward Weston, Max Yavno, A.C. Vroman, Mabel Watson, and many more. Author Stephen White, a longtime photography gallerist and collector, has curated the book to perfection, capturing the California that is its own country, the light that has captivated every photographer's eye.