{"id":2527,"date":"2010-05-05T08:38:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T13:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=2527"},"modified":"2010-05-06T16:23:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T21:23:21","slug":"reading-the-infrastructural-city-chapter-two-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2010\/05\/reading-the-infrastructural-city-chapter-two-index\/","title":{"rendered":"reading the infrastructural city: chapter two index (updated 6 may)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n[A still from Gumball Rally<\/a>, via motortrend.com<\/a>. As high-speed races on the clogged freeways of Los Angeles have become increasingly implausible, the wide-open expanse of paved riverbed has proven irresistible to filmmakers.]<\/em><\/p>\n

SUPRbrains’\u00a0“The Lowline”<\/a> hypothesizes futures for the river as a series of Tschumi-esque event-spaces.<\/p>\n

F.A.D.’s\u00a0“Visual Histories of the Los Angeles River: Past and Envisioned Futures”<\/a> curates images of the L.A. River’s history, and offers a critique of the official Los Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan.<\/p>\n

Nam Henderson’s\u00a0“A zone comprised of an invisible pattern of ownership and maintenance jurisdictions, railroadlands and\u00a0easements”<\/a> initiates discussion on several topics touched on by the discussion of ‘freakologies’ in the chapter and our earlier post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Peter Nunns links the Los Angeles River to “Fire control freakology”<\/a>, via Mike Davis’s Ecology of Fear<\/em>, and then ponders the legal and lo-fi terrains of fire control<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FASLANYC<\/em> provides a comparative survey of Latin American freakologies<\/a>, in Mexico City, Sao Paulo, and Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n

dpr-barcelona looks at the Los Angeles river as a Foucauldian heterotopia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Next Monday, we’ll be discussing Frank Ruchala’s “Crude City”. \u00a0Ruchala traces the city’s complex cultural and economic relationship with oil, which has been both vital to its development and a bit of a black sheep in Los Angeles’s family of infrastructures.<\/em><\/p>\n

We’ll try to update this post with additional links as more material is posted this week. \u00a0If you have responded to this week’s chapter and we haven’t added a link here, please let us know via email or in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[A still from Gumball Rally, via motortrend.com. As high-speed races on the clogged freeways of Los Angeles have become increasingly implausible, the wide-open expanse of paved riverbed has proven irresistible to filmmakers.] SUPRbrains’\u00a0“The Lowline” hypothesizes futures for the river as a series of Tschumi-esque event-spaces. F.A.D.’s\u00a0“Visual Histories of the Los Angeles River: Past and Envisioned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,127],"tags":[391,36,367],"class_list":["post-2527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mammoth-book-club","category-readings","tag-la-river","tag-los-angeles","tag-reading-the-infrastructural-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2527"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2548,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions\/2548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}