Glitter stucco & dumpster diving : reflections on building production in the vernacular city / John Chase.
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New York ; London :
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2000.
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Table of 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.