The Provisional City: Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism

by Dana Cuff

Book Overview

How the modern city is formed through an endless cycle of upheavals, demolition, and debate.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262532026
• ISBN13: 9780262532020
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher