Reyner Banham

A pioneering architectural study of the seventy-mile-square city and the historical process which has made it unique as a human settlement.

The Architecture of Four Ecologies

Los Angeles

Danny White

Whatever glass and steel monuments may be built downtown, the essence of Los Angeles, its true identifying characteristic, is mobility.

...if there is a “local language” to be identified in Los Angeles, it is a language of “movement.”

Banham noted the “apparently total indifference to the needs of all communities except one's own that is one of the most continuously unnerving aspects of public life in Los Angeles,”

Impoverished Brit discovers good weather and the automobile. 

Good for a(n albeit long-winded) history of Los Angeles. Poor for its outdated and naive take on mobility.

Impoverished Brit discovers good weather and the automobile. 

Good for a(n albeit long-winded) history of Los Angeles. Poor for its outdated and naive take on mobility.

Los Angeles The Architecture of Four Ecologies

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