TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chase,John
TI  - Glitter stucco & dumpster diving: reflections on building production in the vernacular city 
SN  - 1859848079
U1  - 720.97949 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New York, London
PB  - Verso
KW  - Architecture, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - California
KW  - Los Angeles
KW  - California, Southern
N1  - 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
ER  -