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Title: L A LOST AND FOUND by Sam Hall Kaplan ISBN: 0-517-56184-0 Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 08 April, 1987 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The past and present of Los Angeles
Comment: Sam Hall Kaplan's L.A. Lost and Found: An Architectural History of Los Angeles is a book obviously written about Los Angeles. The book basically brings us through Los Angeles in the past and on to the future. I feel the reason why the book is titled L.A. Lost and Found is because we have lost a lot of L.A. throughout the years but we have also gain a lot. Things that we have lost and gain is basically the landmarks of Los Angeles. As the years gone by we have been much more productive with landmarks and we are forgetting about the older ones. If you are one that wants to know more about the history of Los Angeles this would be a nice book to look through because it has a lot of beautiful colored pictures of the landmarks of Los Angeles.
Rating: 4
Summary: Lost History
Comment: Kaplan's lost and found is a great representation of the history of Los Angeles. It shows both pictorally and textally how Los Angeles developed using the medium of architecture. This lends itself really well towards a general history and putting together a timeline of events. The book is separated into chapters of general era in our history. I found that the picture helped me get a mental image of what the city looked like in the different time periods. Overall, the book was a great read and I would recommend it to anyone who is researching, or just wanting to see our history in a pictured fashion.
Rating: 4
Summary: Review of Kaplan's Architectural Review
Comment: In LA Lost and Found, Sam Kaplan not only provides a cover to cover pictorial history of Los Angeles, but also tells the story of how Los Angeles came to become a unique city. Kaplan starts his narrative in the early 1800's when Los Angeles' population was beginning to grow and continues into the late 1990's when there were not enough buildings to hold its population. Kaplan describes how Los Angeles developed architecturally over the years. Starting as a coastal desert, Los Angeles began as a mission and slowly expanded with adobe houses, and did not even resemble a town until the first church was built. Today, Los Angeles can be considered nothing short of a large, sprawling city. Buildings may be made of brick or wood or glass, and have arches or stilts or windmills. They may be built at the ocean side, on a mountainside or along a lake, or next to stores, museums, or parks, and still be located in the city of Los Angeles. Los Angeles began as small adobe houses and grew into a "gazpacho" of architectural styles. Kaplan shows how Los Angeles' vast array of architectural styles provides visible evidence of the history and development of the city.
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Title: Imagining Los Angeles: Photographs of a 20th Century City ISBN: 1883792525 Publisher: Los Angeles Times Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Sunset Boulevard: Cruising the Heart of Los Angeles by Amy Dawes ISBN: 1883792622 Publisher: Times (Los Angeles Times) Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.94 |
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Title: An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles by David Gebhard, Robert Winter ISBN: 1586853082 Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publisher Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Southern California in the '50s: Sun, Fun and Fantasy by Charles Phoenix ISBN: 1883318491 Publisher: Angel City Pr Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Los Angeles: An Architectural Guide by David Gebhard, Robert Milton Winter ISBN: 0879056274 Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publisher Pub. Date: July, 1994 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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