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Title:

Everyday urbanism : featuring John Chase ... / edited by John Chase, Margaret Crawford, and John Kaliski.

Publisher:

Monacelli Press,

Copyright Date:

1999

Description:

173 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Architecture--Human factors--Los Angeles.--Los Angeles.
Architecture--Social aspects--Los Angeles.--Los Angeles.
Architecture--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--20th century.
City planning--United States--History--20th century.

Other Authors:

Chase, John, 1953-
Crawford, Margaret, 1948-
Kaliski, John.

Contents:

pt. 2. Quotidian bricolage / Performing the city : reflections on the urban vernacular / Margaret Crawford and John Kaliski . Blurring the boundaries : public space and private life / Margaret Crawford ; The urban bricoleur / Mona Houghton ; Ernest's Garden / photographs by Dennis Keeley ; A Curmudgeon's guide to the wide world of trash / John Chase ; They saw a very great future here : Los Angeles, Latino metropolis / Camilo José Vergara -- pt. 2. Making the city: The present city and the practice of city design / John Kaliski ; The giant revolving (winking) chicken head and the doggie drinking fountain : making small distinctive public spaces on private land by using commonplace objects / John Chase ; A day in the life of a neighborhood place / Phoebe Wall Wilson ; Street survival : the plight of the Los Angeles street vendors / Norman Millar ; Urban diaries :improvisation in West Oakland, California / Walter Hood ; Quotidian bricolage / Margaret Crawford and John Kaliski .

ISBN:

9781885254818
1885254814

OCLC:

(OCoLC)41310269

LCCN:

99023898

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)