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

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Danny White

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,”

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

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

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