Chase, John,  1953- <br/><br/>
Glitter stucco & dumpster diving :  reflections on building production in the vernacular city / 
 Glitter stucco and dumpster diving 
John Chase. 
 - xv, 239 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/> Distinctive title: Glitter stucco and dumpster diving. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> Preface --  Acknowledgments --  The Southern California Home as Commodity --  The stucco box --  Build your castle upon the trash: the making of mountaingate --  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 --  Las Vegas --  Pirates! volcanoes! neon!: welcome to the capitol of non-glamour! --  Personal Space --  A curmudgeon's guide to urban living: paranoia, pagoda and pirate cave --  Trashy space, trashy behavior and trashy people --  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.  Part 1.  Part 2.  Part 3.  Part 4.  Part 5. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1859848079 9781859848074 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Architecture, Modern--California--Los Angeles.--20th century<br/>Architecture, Modern--California, Southern.--20th century
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>720.97949