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USA: Los Angeles: A City of Fame: A Photo Travel Experience (Hardcover)

The city of Los Angeles is not just about Hollywood Rodeo Drive and the Walk of Fame. Known for its Mediterranean climate ethnic diversity and sprawling metropolis. LA is home to iconic architecture ancient forests quirky museums Historical Districts... more

Pre-Owned A5 Architecture Series: Los Angeles: Architecture Interiors Lifestyle Paperback

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Experimental evaluation of the fallout-radiation protection provided by selected structures in the Los Angeles area / by Z.G. Burson ; approved by L.J. Deal. ; Edgerton Germeshaus

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The Feasibility of fare-free transit for Los Angeles; a study in urban transportation planning conducted by the Urban Transportation Seminar of the School of Architecture and Urba

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Pre-Owned Looking for Los Angeles: Architecture Film Photography and the Urban Landscape (Paperback 9780892366163) by Charles G Salas Michael S Roth

9780892366163. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 340. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 340 p. Contains: Illustrations. Issues and Debates. In this volume 12 contributors present their responses to the world s... more

Miracle Mile in Los Angeles:: History and Architecture (Paperback)

The world-famous Miracle Mile in Los Angeles was shaped into a great commercial and cultural district by the city s tremendous urban expansion in the early twentieth century. Its origins along Wilshire Boulevard are directly related to the twin LA... more

Architecture Tours L.A. Guidebook: Hollywood (Paperback)

Here is THE way to see Los Angeles s rich architectural heritage! L.A. is a driving city best seen from the car. Tour guide author and architectural historian Laura Massino Smith directs you on an unforgettable ride to uncover the city s exciting... more

Images of America: Early-20th-Century Los Angeles Bungalow Architecture (Paperback)

Los Angeles California shaped the nation s culture in the 20th century with the city s bungalow style of mass middle-class housing. The style made the novelty and easy climate of Los Angeles into a force for living according to new standards of health... more

Pre-Owned Los Angeles Architecture: The Contemporary (Paperback 9780714837567) by James Steele

9780714837567. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Paperback. Language: English. The architecture of Los Angeles seems at first sight to be chaotic individualism apparently being its only rationale. This book vigorously challenges that view looking beneath the... more

Pre-Owned Los Angeles - Architecture & Design (Hardcover) 3823845845 9783823845843

Eclecticism is LA s defining characteristic. It s a thriving hybrid of a city - decentralised with no clearly defined hub - and its architecture reflects that character. Here is a little guide that will give tourists and professionals alike an overview... more

Issues & Debates: Looking for Los Angeles : Architecture Film Photography and the Urban Landscape (Paperback)

Often referred to as the city of the future Los Angeles is known for its sprawl its constant change and its special relationship to the film industry. The twelve contributors to Looking for Los Angeles focus on dramatic shifts in the urban landscape... more

Pre-Owned Freestyle: The New Architecture and Interior Design from Los Angeles Paperback

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Pre-Owned Forever L.A.: A Field Guide to Los Angeles Area Cemeteries & Their Residents (Paperback) 1423605225 9781423605225

In fascinating stories and images Douglas Keister talks about cemetery symbols funerary architecture and secret societies and clubs. He provides GPS coordinates to pinpoint each cemetery and most gravesites featured in the book. more

Images of America: Los Angeles Art Deco (Paperback)

Art Deco made its formal appearance in Paris at the 1925 L Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes a showcase for art architecture and design that promoted progress modernity and the present. The greatest export from this... more

Los Angeles Art Deco (Hardcover)

Art Deco made its formal appearance in Paris at the 1925 L Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes a showcase for art architecture and design that promoted progress modernity and the present. The greatest export from this... more

Architecture in Detail: California Aerospace Museum: Frank Gehry: Architecture in Detail (Paperback)

Frank Gehry s work has been described as habitable sculpture. He is widely acknowledged as the father of the Los Angeles School. Characterized by their collage-like complexity their shifts in geometry and frequent use of utilitarian materials Gehry s... more

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Bi Dietary Fats Lipids Hormones and Tumorigenesis: New Horizons in Basic Research Book 399 (Hardcover)

This book was inspired by a gatheringofscientists in Los Angeles in 1994 under the auspices of the UCLA Clinical Nutrition Research Unit which is funded by the National Cancer Institute to promote new research into nutrition and cancer prevention. This... more

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology: Dietary Fats Lipids Hormones and Tumorigenesis: New Horizons in Basic Research (Paperback)

This book was inspired by a gatheringofscientists in Los Angeles in 1994 under the auspices of the UCLA Clinical Nutrition Research Unit which is funded by the National Cancer Institute to promote new research into nutrition and cancer prevention. This... more

Making Architecture : The Getty Center (Paperback)

This volume completes the documentation of the planning design and construction of the Getty Center begun in The Getty Center (1991). Designed by Richard Meier and Partners the Getty Center sits atop a stunning 110-acre hilltop in west Los Angeles and... more

Architecture Tours L.A. Guidebook: Silver Lake (Paperback)

Here is THE way to see Los Angeles s rich architectural heritage! L.A. is a driving city best seen from the car. Tour guide author and architectural historian Laura Massino Smith directs you on an unforgettable ride to uncover the city s exciting... more

Architecture Tours L.A. Guidebook: Downtown (Paperback)

Here is THE way to see Los Angeles s rich architectural heritage! L.A. is a driving city best seen from the car. Tour guide author and architectural historian Laura Massino Smith directs you on an unforgettable ride to uncover the city s exciting... more

Pre-Owned Architecture Tours L.A. Guidebook: Hancock Park / Miracle Mile (Paperback) 0764322974 9780764322976

Here is THE way to see Los Angeles s rich architectural heritage! L.A. is a driving city best seen from the car. Tour guide author and architectural historian Laura Massino Smith directs you on an unforgettable ride to uncover the city s exciting... more

Architecture Tours L.A. Guidebook: Hancock Park / Miracle Mile (Paperback)

Here is THE way to see Los Angeles s rich architectural heritage! L.A. is a driving city best seen from the car. Tour guide author and architectural historian Laura Massino Smith directs you on an unforgettable ride to uncover the city s exciting... more

Ashgate Studies in Architecture On Frank Lloyd Wright s Concrete Adobe: Irving Gill Rudolph Schindler and the American Southwest (Paperback)

During the years 1919 into 1925 Frank Lloyd Wright worked on four houses and a kindergarten located in metropolitan Los Angeles using concrete blocks as the main building material. The construction system has been described by Wright and others as... more

Architecture Tours L.A. Guidebook: W. Hollywood/Beverly Hills (Paperback)

Here is THE way to see Los Angeles s rich architectural heritage! L.A. is a driving city best seen from the car. Tour guide author and architectural historian Laura Massino Smith directs you on an unforgettable ride to uncover the city s exciting... more

Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead the Cold War and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science (Hardcover)

A Los Angeles Times Bestseller One of The New Yorker s best books of 2024 A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century illuminating how a culture of experimental drugs shaped the Cold War and the birth... more

Eat Your Mind : The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker (Paperback)

It s shocking to learn that this is McBride s first book...Eat Your Mind does everything a good biography should and more --Los Angeles Times The first full-scale authorized biography of the pioneering experimental novelist Kathy Acker one of the most... more

Pre-Owned Brave New Houses: Adventures in Southern California Living (Paperback 9780847825653) by Michael Webb

9780847825653. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 239. Trade paperback (US). Sewn binding. 239 p. Contains: Illustrations. Los Angeles and Southern California have always been a crucible for the experimental in... more

National Geographic Traveler: California 4th Edition (Edition 4) (Paperback)

Paperback. Pages: 400. 400 p. Features include a driving tour of Los Angeles funky architecture and walking tours of historic San Francisco as well as cut-away drawings of Alcatraz and the sea-creature-filled tide pools. Extensive background... more

Images of Baseball: Dodger Stadium (Paperback)

Since 1962 the inspiring architecture and sweeping vistas of Dodger Stadium have inspired millions of Los Angeles Dodgers baseball fans. What team president Walter O Malley envisioned nearly half a century ago endures as one of professional baseball s... more

Morgan Fisher: Conversations (Paperback)

Los Angeles-based artist and filmmaker Morgan Fisher first achieved widespread recognition in the late 1960s and 1970s for a body of experimental films that deconstructed the language of cinema both as raw material and as a set of production methods... more