Concrete Fantasy: Southern California, a Freeway Metropolis
Clip: Season 2 Episode 3 | 7m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
If any one building material defined mid-20th-century Los Angeles, it was concrete.
If any one building material defined mid-20th-century Los Angeles, it was concrete – once a symbol of progress, modernity, and control of nature. As the city’s most iconic concrete structures, the freeways, aged, latter-day artists and critics like Catherine Opie and Reyner Banham began to celebrate their aesthetic qualities: their swooping forms and their kinetic thrills.
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Concrete Fantasy: Southern California, a Freeway Metropolis
Clip: Season 2 Episode 3 | 7m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
If any one building material defined mid-20th-century Los Angeles, it was concrete – once a symbol of progress, modernity, and control of nature. As the city’s most iconic concrete structures, the freeways, aged, latter-day artists and critics like Catherine Opie and Reyner Banham began to celebrate their aesthetic qualities: their swooping forms and their kinetic thrills.
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Iron Sprawl: How Trolleys Made L.A. a Horizontal City
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Clip: S2 Ep3 | 9m 10s | Once imported from elsewhere, iron and steel would transform Los Angeles’ urban form. (9m 10s)
Red Gold: The Demise of California's Redwood Forest
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Clip: S2 Ep3 | 7m 20s | Only five percent of Los Angeles' old-growth redwood forests remain after exploitation. (7m 20s)
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