Los Angeles: a city of moving images
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RIS BIB ENDNOTELos Angeles: miasto ruchomych obrazów
Publication date: 07.2021
Housing Environment, 2021, 34/2021, pp. 5-18
https://doi.org/10.4467/25438700SM.21.004.13643Authors
Los Angeles: a city of moving images
To Europeans, fascination with America is like being charmed by oddity. It manifests itself in a reality that is a postmodern mixture of fragmentary experiences that manifest themselves in the image of both large American cities and roadside architecture. I analyse the horizontally stretched Los Angeles as a lively spectacle of street traffic. Despite newer and newer iconic works of architecture, shapelessness, amorphousness and scattering of this city’s spatial formations does not allow for a proper reading of its structures. My study concludes that it is not buildings or historical sites but street traffic and the highway system that define the character of this city, whose image was enhanced by world-class cinema.
Information: Housing Environment, 2021, 34/2021, pp. 5-18
Article type: Original article
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Los Angeles: a city of moving images
Los Angeles: miasto ruchomych obrazów
Institute of Urban Design, Faculty of Architecture, Cracow University of Technology
Published at: 07.2021
Article status: Open
Licence: CC BY
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Polish, English