Heteropolis: Los Angeles : The Riots and the Strange Beauty of Hetero-Architecture

By Charles Jencks

Book Overview

In this monograph, Charles Jencks provides a new classification for the global city of the future, for its social and architectural structure and style: the heteropolis. He views Los Angeles as the world's foremost heteropolis where all the contradictions come true. Multicultural, Third World, super rich, minoritorized, high-tech, sprawling with over 100 communities and now riot torn - it represents the future of the global city, and it has invented a new style of hetero-architecture which is both provocatively fresh and suitable to its pluralism.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1854901869
• ISBN13: 9781854901866
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.9" x 11.3"