The spoils of dust : reinventing the lake that made Los Angeles /
Once the third largest lake in California, and among the world's greatest air pollution offenders, the deadened Owens Lake was for decades merely a catastrophic footnote to the most notorious water grab in modern history. Now, the lake has been reassembled to exceed the value of what was lost,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Novato California] :
Applied Research and Design Publishing, an imprint of ORO Editions,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Once the third largest lake in California, and among the world's greatest air pollution offenders, the deadened Owens Lake was for decades merely a catastrophic footnote to the most notorious water grab in modern history. Now, the lake has been reassembled to exceed the value of what was lost, without refilling its shores and depriving Los Angeles of its water supply. In 'The spoils of dust,' the lake's peculiar redemption is the backdrop for investigating contemporary relationships between landscape design, control and perception. The lake-like terrain is our most intimate display of modern technocratic vision and exposes the limits of our invention and control of infrastructural ecologies. Whether by observations of dust or scenery, it is as much the product of how we perceive and value landscape today. Answering its analysis, the book concludes with a visual atlas and proposal to induce more imaginative outcomes and perceptions. |
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| Physical Description: | 256 pages : chiefly color illustrations, maps (some color) ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781940743486 1940743486 |