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Glitter, Stucco, and Dumpster Diving: Reflections on Building Production in the Vernacular City Book

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  • Glitter, Stucco, and Dumpster Diving: Reflections on Building Production in the Vernacular City
  • Written by author John Chase
  • Published by Verso, January 2004
  • In this free-wheeling guided tour to the cityscape of Southern California, from moviestar mansions to the alleys of the homeless, urban planner John Chase combines gossip, anecdote, archival research and tabloid-worthy self-revelation, grounding architect
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Prefaceix
Acknowledgmentsxiii
Part 1The Southern California Home as Commodity
The stucco box3
Build your castle upon the trash: the making of mountaingate39
Part 2Illusion and Delusion in Los Angeles
Finding los angeles in the movies, finding the movies in los angeles51
How can i miss you when you won't go away?: convention versus invention and the survival of period revival in southern california75
Knocking off the knock-offs103
Part 3Las Vegas
Pirates! volcanoes! neon!: welcome to the capitol of non-glamour!117
Part 4Personal Space
A curmudgeon's guide to urban living: paranoia, pagoda and pirate cave143
Trashy space, trashy behavior and trashy people173
Part 5Classifying and Evaluating Building Production
The typology of building production191
Duty and the beast: the representative and the lovable in the preservation of the recent past201
You are what you buy: the consumerist imperative in american building production211
Bibliography233


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