L.A. follies : design and other diversions in a fractured metropolis / Sam Hall Kaplan.

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Kaplan, Sam Hall.

Title & Author:

L.A. follies : design and other diversions in a fractured metropolis / Sam Hall Kaplan.

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Description:

239 pages ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Introduction: Design and other diversions -- 1. Why L.A. looks the way it does -- 2. Whose city is it, anyway? -- 3. Strip mining the urban lode -- 4. Architecture, for better or worse -- 5. Of streets, trees and traffic -- 6. Preserving the past -- 7. Special places -- 8. Special people -- 9. Personal prejudices.
Also issued online.

ISBN:

0962200700
9780962200700

Subject:

City planning California Los Angeles.
Architecture and society California Los Angeles.
Architecture Human factors California Los Angeles.
Architecture et société Californie Los Angeles.
Architecture Facteurs humains Californie Los Angeles.
Architecture and society.
Architecture Human factors.
City planning.
California Los Angeles.
Architecture California Los Angeles Human factors

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Los Angeles follies

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Location: Library main 53651
Call No.: ID:90-B2350
Status: Available

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