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Manhole Covers of Los Angeles
Author | : Robert Melnick,Mimi Melnick |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : 1974-01-01 |
Genre | : Manhole covers |
ISBN | : 0870931687 |
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Manhole Covers
Author | : Mimi Melnick,Robert A. Melnick |
Publsiher | : MIT Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1996-08-01 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 0262631741 |
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They lie underfoot, embellished and gleaming. They seal off and provide entry to an underground world of conduits, water mains, power lines, and sewers. They appear by the thousands in our cities, but very few people ever look at them or think about them as art. At once completely ordinary and totally unexpected, manhole covers present an infinite variety of design in the commonplace as well as a record of defunct utility companies, forgotten business firms, and obsolete foundries. Manhole Covers documents this singular form of urban industrial art and its place in American culture. Mimi and Robert Melnick first revealed their obsession with street hardware twenty years ago in a remarkable little book called Manhole Covers of Los Angeles (1974). Printed in a small format and a limited edition, it quickly went out of print and is now a scarce collector's item. But that was just an introduction to their larger project, which has come to fruition in this book of 200 photographs and an extended narrative documenting manhole covers throughout the United States and discussing the history of their use, manufacture, and function. A subject that at first seems straightforward and commonplace becomes redolent and poetic in the Melnicks' hands, for their hieroglyphic reading of manhole covers reveals a chapter of urban history that can only be recovered from the logos and markings of these early disks. There are square lids, convex lids, perforated lids. And the older ones wear an astonishingly diverse range of anything-but-blank faces expressed in raised crosses, waffle grids, cut-out diamonds, radial stars, floral patterns, and honeycomb treads. The diversity of design corresponds to an equally diverse typology of form and function, as indicated by their evocative labels: handholes, vents, coalholes, grates, lampholes, storm drains, steam covers, meter lids, traffic buttons.
Los Angeles Annual Builders Guide
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Building laws |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105216710181 |
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An Arch Guidebook to Los Angeles
Author | : Robert Winter |
Publsiher | : Gibbs Smith |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2009-09 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1423608933 |
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Known as "the bible" to Los Angeles architecture scholars and enthusiasts, Robert Winter and David Gebhard's groundbreaking guide to architecture in the greater Los Angeles area is updated and revised once again. From Art Deco to Beaux-Arts, Spanish Colonial to Mission Revival, Winter discusses an impressive variety of architectural styles in this popular guide that he co-authored with the late David Gebhard. New buildings and sites have been added, along with all new photography. Considered the most thorough L.A. architecture guide ever written, this new edition features the best of the past and present, from Charles and Henry Greene's Gamble House to Frank Gehry's Disney Philharmonic Hall. This was, and is again, a must-have guide to a diverse and architecturally rich area. Robert Winter is a recognized architectural historian who lives in Los Angeles, and has led architectural tours through the Los Angeles area since 1965. He is a professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Wastewater Facilities
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : NWU:35556031043318 |
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Los Angeles Magazine
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 852 |
Release | : 2007-07 |
Genre | : California, Southern |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105133516976 |
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Designing America s Waste Landscapes
Author | : Mira Engler |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2004-05-31 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0801878039 |
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San Fernando California Earthquake of February 9 1971 Utilities transportation and sociological aspects
Author | : Neil A. Benfer,Jerry L. Coffman |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Buildings |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112104074783 |
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