The Infrastructural City

The Infrastructural City
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Publisher : Actarbirkhauser
Total Pages : 251
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ISBN-10 : 849695479X
ISBN-13 : 9788496954793
Rating : 4/5 (793 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Infrastructural City by : Kazys Varnelis

Download or read book The Infrastructural City written by Kazys Varnelis and published by Actarbirkhauser. This book was released on 2009 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once the greatest American example of a modern city served by infrastructure, Los Angeles is now in perpetual crisis. Infrastructure has ceased to support its urban plans, subordinating 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 people, objects, and capital. This provocative collection of photography, essays, and maps looks at infrastructure as a way of mapping our place in the city and affecting change through architecture.


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