Urban Tomographies. Martin H. Krieger
Urban Tomographies
The City in the 21st Century
Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter, Series Editors
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Urban Tomographies
Martin H. Krieger
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
PHILADELPHIA
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Krieger, Martin H.
Urban tomographies / Martin H. Krieger.
p. cm. — (The city in the twenty-first century)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8122-4304-8 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Sociology, Urban—France—Paris. 2. Sociology, Urban—California—Los Angeles. 3. City and town life—France—Paris. 4. City and town life—California—Los Angeles. I. Title. II. Series: City in Series: City in the twenty-first century book series.
HT151.K75 2011
307.760944’361—dc22
2010034425
For Sophie, Joshua, and David
Contents
2 Cities, Streetscapes, and the Second Industrial Revolution
4 System and Network, Node and Link
5 Storefront Houses of Worship
Illustrations
1. Maps of Urban Tomographies sites
2. Multipanel view of East César E. Chávez Avenue near North Soto Street, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles
4. Rue de Tilsitt, Paris, France, 1877 and 2008
5. Multipanel display of videos produced by multiple cell phones
6. Sand casting at a foundry, downtown Los Angeles
7. Engraving from L’Encyclopédie (~1760), making plate glass
8. Clarence Street, Pico-Aliso district, Los Angeles
9. An industrial street and workplace in Vernon, California
10. Three workplaces in Los Angeles
11. Maps of documented Los Angeles industrial sites
12. Longshore workers at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach
13. Worker sorting used clothes, with thousand-pound bales in the background
14. Making chairs at a one-room workshop
15. Nursing station at Los Angeles County–University of Southern California General Hospital
16. Ethnic markets in Los Angeles
17. Distributing Station 43, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
18. Maps of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power electrical facilities
19. Taylor Yard and adjacent infrastructure
20. U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey benchmark, in situ
21. Survey nail
22. Underground Services Alert
23. Maps of documented Los Angeles storefront houses of worship
24. Storefront houses of worship in Los Angeles
25. Recording street aural ambience in Santa Ana, California
Urban Tomographies
Figure 1A. Urban Tomographies sites. Figure 1C is an aerial of site #1 shown in 1A and B. Map used by permission of Microsoft.
Figure 1B. Urban Tomographies sites (detail). Map used by permission of Microsoft.
Figure 1C. Aerial view of site #1 in Figures 1A and B. © 2010 Google; imagery © 2010 TerraMetrics.