Reyner Banham
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The City is s the archaeological remains of a civilization that ought to have died when gizmos came in.
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Los Angeles is a city seventy miles square but rarely seventy years deep apart from a small downtown not yet two centuries old and a few other pockets of ancientry. It is an instant townscape.
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Los Angeles is a place where a domestic or sociable journey does not end so much at the door of one's destination as at the off-ramp of the freeway, the mile or two of ground-level drive of the house.
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Los Angeles is a city whose beaches should be envied by other metropolises more than any other aspect of the city.
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Urban planning is the only branch of knowledge purporting to be some kind of science which regards a plan as being fulfilled when it is merely completed.