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Showing 1 to 20 of 535 for “"Los Angeles"”.
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Image & illusion : Los Angeles Film Center
To think about Los Angeles is like sitting in front of the television and switching the channels while keeping track of an the shows. It is a complex place: it has many divergent styles and images trying to make up a whole. Los Angeles is about images and imagery; its tradition and commitment to …
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Detour : Los Angeles River Speed Cinema
… mobility. However, more than a century later in Los Angeles, a city where cars and movies have been inculcated in the popular imagination, decelerating to a complete halt or even nonexistence is the modus operandi of late. Today's LA. is full of cars with no where to drive them really fast; …
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Housing...the Hillside, Los Angeles, California
… for a prototypical hillside housing community in Los Angeles, California. As a prototype it is responsible for setting an architectural precedent. In this effort, the Thesis continues with focus on issues of construction methodology, urban planning, and land use relationships concerning the …
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Los Angeles and the Owens River Aqueduct
… went into bringing the first imported water to Los Angeles, the reasons the water was necessary, the legal bases on which water was acquired, and the end results on the distant Owens River Valley.</p>
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Infrastructural opportunism inhabiting the Los Angeles hinterland
Los Angeles is a vast, dense, and notorious city that overshadows the individualities of its outlying territories. California is likewise divided between urban center and middle land, with inland acting as producer and collector, and coast as consumer. However, there is the potential in this middle …
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Queering community : collective housing in Los Angeles
… and proposes a design for collective housing in Los Angeles that embodies that history. This project operates on a definition of queer space as the the temporal appropriation of marginal spaces, bartering in a language of objectification, seclusion and the mapping of the body onto objects and the …
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Los Angeles 2028: Inglewood Station and Ballfield
… respectively a better service to its community. Los Angeles, poised to host the 2028 Summer Olympics, offers itself the territory for a site that promises to continue its urban contributions beyond the games.
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Urban Fervor: Los Angeles Literature and Alternative Religion
… and other dynamics within the spiritual life of Los Angeles opens up the city's literary canon; employing religion as a critical lens illuminates the conjunction of history, literature, and urban growth that characterizes Los Angeles culture. This is especially relevant in a setting where, …
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Analysis of the Los Angeles metropolitan office market
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1992.
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Engaging communities : participatory planning in Los Angeles neighborhoods
As the planning paradigm in Los Angeles shifts away from sprawled development and towards smart growth and transit-oriented development, low-income communities are weary of the changes future investment and development will bring. Several studies have shown that the introduction of rail stations …
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Los Angeles Artists and Revisionist Historiography: A Diasporic Intervention
<p>This dissertation examines contemporary Los Angeles-based artists whose identity and work engages with issues of diaspora. I combine visual analysis of the artwork with interviews with the artists to look at the ways in which they utilize several visual and theoretical concepts of diaspora, …
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Evaluating Los Angeles Homelessness Policy Using System Dynamics Modeling
… unsheltered homelessness. Using a case study of Los Angeles homelessness, I evaluated policies aimed at easing homelessness using scenario analysis, employing system dynamic (SD) modeling. This study primarily focuses on the evaluation of the Housing First approach and the identification of more …
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Visuality and the transnational urban space: Koreatown, Los Angeles
… and archival research) of Koreatown in Los Angeles, I examine how visuality and countervisuality influence the transnational urban space of Koreatown, Los Angeles. Based on Nicholas Mirzoeff’s (2011) concepts of visuality and countervisuality, and by incorporating perspectives of …
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Foreign investment in the Los Angeles real estate market
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1987.
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Los Angeles County's Criminal Street Gangs: Does Violence Roll Downhill?
… characteristics of Blood and Crip gangs in Los Angeles County. Results show that the majority of gang-on-gang violence originates and targets individuals in the city of Los Angeles. Furthermore, more than two-thirds of the violence committed at the hands of Blood and Crip gangs is upon …
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Redevelopment of the Union Pacific Freight Terminal, Los Angeles, California
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.
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Ornament is dangerous : a wildfire hazard center for Los Angeles
There is no such thing as an unadorned building. While the the role and relevance of ornament in architecture has been criticized for centuries, its position has been, for the most part, supported as essential to architecture. In his seminal work On the Art of Building in Ten Books, Alberti wrote, …
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An ideal theater : the Takarazuka Revue Company in Los Angeles
… vehicle for this investigation is a theater, in Los Angeles, for an all-women Japanese revue company. The building articulates the roles of the performers and of the audience. In addition to solving the functional program, as a social performer the theater seeks to propose new ways to activate …
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