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Glitter stucco & dumpster diving : reflections on building production in the vernacular city / John Chase.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; London : Verso, 2000Description: xv, 239 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1859848079
  • 9781859848074
Other title:
  • Glitter stucco and dumpster diving
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.97949 21
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1. The Southern California Home as Commodity -- The stucco box -- Build your castle upon the trash: the making of mountaingate -- Part 2. Illusion and Delusion in Los Angeles -- Finding los angeles in the movies, finding the movies in los angeles -- How can i miss you when you won't go away?: convention versus invention and the survival of period revival in southern california -- Knocking off the knock-offs -- Part 3. Las Vegas -- Pirates! volcanoes! neon!: welcome to the capitol of non-glamour! -- Part 4. Personal Space -- A curmudgeon's guide to urban living: paranoia, pagoda and pirate cave -- Trashy space, trashy behavior and trashy people -- Part 5. Classifying and Evaluating Building Production -- The typology of building production -- Duty and the beast: the representative and the lovable in the preservation of the recent past -- You are what you buy: the consumerist imperative in american building production -- Bibliography.
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Distinctive title: Glitter stucco and dumpster diving.

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1. The Southern California Home as Commodity -- The stucco box -- Build your castle upon the trash: the making of mountaingate -- Part 2. Illusion and Delusion in Los Angeles -- Finding los angeles in the movies, finding the movies in los angeles -- How can i miss you when you won't go away?: convention versus invention and the survival of period revival in southern california -- Knocking off the knock-offs -- Part 3. Las Vegas -- Pirates! volcanoes! neon!: welcome to the capitol of non-glamour! -- Part 4. Personal Space -- A curmudgeon's guide to urban living: paranoia, pagoda and pirate cave -- Trashy space, trashy behavior and trashy people -- Part 5. Classifying and Evaluating Building Production -- The typology of building production -- Duty and the beast: the representative and the lovable in the preservation of the recent past -- You are what you buy: the consumerist imperative in american building production -- Bibliography.

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