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ARCHITECTURE OF FEAR
Edited by Nan Ellin. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. 1997. 21 (pb 1 3)
This collection of 20 pieces is a self-confessed spin-off from Mike Davis' `City of Quartz', an overheated polemic about Los Angeles which nonetheless had something to say when it appeared a few years ago to great acclaim. The message has lost much of its power to shock, the message being roughly that the openness which had charmed Reyner Banham arriving in Los Angeles 30 years before had been replaced by a fortress mentality through which the haves (mainly white and...