In his seminal text ‘The Architecture of Four Ecologies’, Reyner Banham offers a complimentary criticism of Los Angeles’s urban form. Fifty years later, is he still correct?
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Reviews of books and texts about San Diego and Southern California.
Mike Davis, in his 1990 masterpiece, offers a takedown of the socioeconomic wreckage wrought in Southern California since the election of Richard Nixon in 1968.
Comments closedIn 1946, Carey McWilliams released his monumental book that pokes holes in Southern California’s gleaming image, explains why we move here, and predicts the rise of Donald Trump.
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