{"id":1421,"date":"2011-07-19T15:09:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T22:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingvancouver.ca\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2013-01-21T07:02:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:02:30","slug":"no-more-play-conversations-on-urban-speculation-in-los-angeles-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/07\/19\/no-more-play-conversations-on-urban-speculation-in-los-angeles-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Play: Conversations on Urban Speculation in Los Angeles and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/Book_NoMorePLay_Maltzan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1429\" title=\"Book_NoMorePLay_Maltzan\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/Book_NoMorePLay_Maltzan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/spacingvancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/features\/book-reviews_feature-VAN.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Author: Michael Maltzan (Hatje Cantz, 2011)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Through conversations with a photographer, journalist, urban planner, futurist and a number of architect-cum-academics, Michael Maltzan tries to define the dynamics of the City of Los Angeles in <em>No More Play<\/em>. Fabulous Photos by Iwan Baan engage readers in this sweeping narrative, exposing human interaction with L.A.\u2019s horizontal laboratory of cars, highways and urban ecology.<\/p>\n<p><em>No more Play<\/em> is not a book about buildings. Rather, it offers readers a submersion into L.A.\u2019s sea of cultural influence and gives a look at the mechanisms that spur its rapidly changing urban landscape. Each voice offers a personal account that speaks to the past, present and future of Los Angeles, as well as to the world beyond. Catherine Opie, Matthew Coolidge, Mirko Zardini, Edward Soja, Charles Jencks, Qingyun Ma, Sarah Whiting, James Flanigan, and Charles Waldheim describe the events, places, industries and ideas that are the basis for one of the world\u2019s most flagrant economic and cultural cities.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Interviewee Geoff Manaugh, author of BLDGBLOG, creates a vision of L.A. that portrays it as a city that absorbs subcultures rather than a place with a defined cultural grain. In conversation with Manaugh, LA is a place where punks, evangelicals and porn stars can exist and do business in a single city block. He expresses the constant change of the city:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn Los Angeles, you can always do something else, you can always move on to the next place, you can always find something else to do \u2013 but from a resource perspective, can we?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seeing the city as a place of infinite rebirth within a finite-resourced world, his vision is a constant in <em>No More Play<\/em>;<\/p>\n<p>In another interesting exchange, Charles Waldheim offers his take on the horizontal sprawling nature of Los Angeles and the Architects challenge in designing around urban planners to create public space. The conversation shifts to the need for change in resource consumption, and the hybridization of infrastructure to reflect the consumption of imported resources. Waldheim states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSome people argue that certain psychological points like gasoline prices in dollars will be the limit, or hours of commute. But the basic conditions for continued sprawl still exist.\u00a0 Land prices are still incredibly cheap, oil prices are still incredibly low, the students at the business schools are still being taught that the shipping costs of goods and supplies are essentially nil.\u00a0 As long as that is still true, I think Sprawl is going to continue.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Edward Soja continues the conversation, focusing on Los Angeles as a laboratory for urbanization globally.\u00a0 He offers his cautions for adopting the L.A. model in other parts of the world. As an image factory, the city offers a heterogeneous model that functions to encourage massive income gaps, suffering major geographic challenges and social injustices. Although it is far from a democratic city to be copied elsewhere, Soja shows that justice struggles continue to make the city more equitable, citing the Bus Riders Union and it\u2019s effect in improving the bus system for the working poor.<\/p>\n<p>James Flannigan furthers this vision, as he outlines the import boom in 1996 and the relationship between the \u2018brain goods\u2019 of southern California to the hard goods of Asian cities in the pacific rim.<\/p>\n<p>Each conversation in <em>No More Fun <\/em>provides a vision of Los Angeles and collectively they inform a portrait of the city.\u00a0 The book is an engaging and substantial look into one of the worlds major cities, which should be as appealing to Los Angeles natives as to those who have never visited.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Michael Maltzan (Hatje Cantz, 2011) Through conversations with a photographer, journalist, urban planner, futurist and a number of architect-cum-academics, Michael Maltzan tries to define the dynamics of the City of Los Angeles in No More Play. Fabulous Photos by Iwan Baan engage readers in this sweeping narrative, exposing human interaction with L.A.\u2019s horizontal laboratory<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/07\/19\/no-more-play-conversations-on-urban-speculation-in-los-angeles-and-beyond\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;No More Play: Conversations on Urban Speculation in Los Angeles and Beyond&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6025,"featured_media":1429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11232],"tags":[1079,5133,52,5147,5146,5142,5140,5134,5139,297,5149,5137,5141,5138,5135,2808,4919,295,5144,296,5143,5148,1411,828,5136,5145,5005,1067,205,206],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-author","tag-beyond-author","tag-book-review","tag-bus-riders-union","tag-catherine-opie","tag-charles-jencks","tag-charles-waldheim","tag-edward-soja","tag-geoff-manaugh","tag-glocalization","tag-hybridization","tag-interviewee-geoff-manaugh","tag-iwan-baan","tag-james-flanigan","tag-james-flannigan","tag-journalist","tag-l-a","tag-los-angeles","tag-matthew-coolidge","tag-michael-maltzan","tag-mirko-zardini","tag-oil-prices","tag-pacific-rim","tag-photographer","tag-qingyun-ma","tag-sarah-whiting","tag-southern-california","tag-urban-planner","tag-urban-spaces","tag-urban-sprawl"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>No More Play: Conversations on Urban Speculation in Los Angeles and Beyond - Spacing Vancouver<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/07\/19\/no-more-play-conversations-on-urban-speculation-in-los-angeles-and-beyond\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No More Play: Conversations on Urban Speculation in Los Angeles and Beyond - Spacing Vancouver\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Author: Michael Maltzan (Hatje Cantz, 2011) Through conversations with a photographer, journalist, urban planner, futurist and a number of architect-cum-academics, Michael Maltzan tries to define the dynamics of the City of Los Angeles in No More Play. 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