THE INFRASTRUCTURAL CITY: NETWORKED ECOLOGIES IN LOS ANGELES Edited By V…

THE INFRASTRUCTURAL CITY: NETWORKED ECOLOGIES IN LOS ANGELES By Kazys Varnelis • Preowned. Clean, no markings, but is labeled with a previous student's name on title page. • Hardcover, 2008, Actar, Barcelona Once the greatest American example of a modern city served by infrastructure, Los Angeles is now in perpetual crisis. Infrastructure has ceased to support architecture's plans for the city and instead subordinates architecture to its own purposes. This out-of-control but networked world is increasingly organized by flows of objects and information. Static structures avoid being superfluous by joining this system as temporary containers for the people, objects, and capital. A provocative collection of research through photography, essays and maps, this is book looks at infrastructure as a way of mapping our place in the city, remaining optimistic about the role of architecture to affect change. Tags: Books Architecture Program Architect textbooks university USC UCLA SCI-Arc College Graduate School