Peter Reyner Banham Hon. FRIBA was an English architectural critic and writer best known for his theoretical treatise Theory and Design in the First Machine Age and for his 1971 book Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies.

Reyner Banham examined the built environment of Los Angeles in a way no architectural historian before him had done, looking with fresh eyes at its manifestations of popular taste and industrial ingenuity, as well as its more traditional modes of residential and commercial building. His construct of 'four ecologies' examined the ways Angelenos relate to the beach, the freeways,...(展开全部)

The smog beast wafted into downtown Los Angeles on July 26, 1943. Nobody knew what it was. Secretaries rubbed their eyes. Traffic cops seemed to disappear in the mysterious haze. Were Japanese saboteurs responsible? A reckless factory? The truth was much worse--it came from within, from Southern California's burgeoning car-addicted, suburban lifestyle. Smogtown is the sto...(展开全部)

In the mid-2010s, a passionate community of Los Angeles-based storytellers, media artists, and tech innovators formed around virtual reality (VR), believing that it could remedy society’s ills. Lisa Messeri offers an ethnographic exploration of this community, which conceptualized VR as an “empathy machine” that could provide glimpses into diverse social realities. She outlines...(展开全部)

In Atmospheric Noise, Marina Peterson traces entanglements of environmental noise, atmosphere, sense, and matter that cohere in and through encounters with airport noise since the 1960s. Exploring spaces shaped by noise around Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), she shows how noise is a way of attuning toward the atmospheric: through noise we learn to listen to the sky and...(展开全部)

这是一场关于语言的战斗：两年前，青柳清明被神秘组织所杀，当时还是小学4年级的主人公青柳立夏不仅失去了他的哥哥而且还失去了唯一一个能够理解他的人。从那次以后，立夏开始变得有点奇怪，甚至有点双重人格的倾向。6年级的时候，立夏遇到了自称曾经视哥哥清明为主人而自己作为战斗机战斗过的我妻 草灯。在那里草灯竟主动要求立夏成为他的主人，当立夏知道自己的哥哥清明是被一个叫做[七之月]的神秘组织所杀的时候，决定与草灯一同作战，希望能够调查出清明被杀的真相。成为草灯的主人并名为LOVELESS[无爱者]的青柳 立夏以及身为他的战斗机的我妻 草灯，一场使用语言的战斗即将开始。。。

At once informative and entertaining, inspiring and challenging, My Los Angeles provides a deep understanding of urban development and change over the past forty years in Los Angeles and other city regions of the world. Once the least dense American metropolis, Los Angeles is now the country’s densest urbanized area and one of the most culturally heterogeneous cities in the wor...(展开全部)