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Street Level: Los Angeles in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
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Street Level: Los Angeles in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
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In the latter part of the C20th, a series of seminal books were
written which examined Los Angeles by the likes of Reyner Banham,
Mike Davis, Edward Soja, Allen Scott, Michael Dear, Frederick
Jameson, Umberto Eco, Bernard-Henri Levy, and Jean Baudrillard
which have been hugely influential in thinking about cities more
broadly. The debates which were generated by these works have
tended to be very heated and either defensive or offensive in
approach. A sufficient amount of time has since passed that a more
measured approach to evaluating this work can now be taken. The
first section of this book, 'Contra This and Contra That', provides
such a critique of the various theories applied to Los Angeles
during the last century, balancing the positive with the negative.
The second part of the book is an investigation of L.A. as it
exists on the ground today. While political, the theoretical stance
taken in this investigation is not mounted as a platform from which
to advocate a particular ideology. Instead, it encompasses cultural
as well as economic issues to put forth a view of L.A. which is
coherent and cogent while at the same time considering its
multi-layed, complex and ever-changing qualities. It concludes by
arguing that sectored off and 'totalizing' visions of the city will
not do as instruments of urban analysis and that only a theory as
mobile as its target will do: one that replicates the polymer
nature of this place. It proposes that, extending that theory to
the world beyond this particular city, only a theory that models
itself on the mobile and polymer nature of the world, while still
retaining a sense of the actual and the real, will do as an
instrument with which to comprehend the world. In doing so, this
book is not only a model by which to think through Los Angeles, but
as a model by which to think through other world cities.
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