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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

       List of Illustrations

       Preface

       1 Introduction

       2 Cities, Streetscapes, and the Second Industrial Revolution

       3 Choreographies of Work

       4 System and Network, Node and Link

       5 Storefront Houses of Worship

       6 The Urban Aural Sensorium

       7 Finding Out Where We Are

       Notes

       Index

       Acknowledgments

       Illustrations

       1. Maps of Urban Tomographies sites

       2. Multipanel view of East César E. Chávez Avenue near North Soto Street, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles

       3. Echocardiogram

       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.

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