Aug 13, 2017
...Los Angeles is not just a twenty- first- century megacity. Its ecological fragility combined with a dangerous lack of terrestrial stability mean that Los Angeles requires continual monitoring and study: from its buried creeks to its mountain summits, the city has been ornamented with scientific equipment, crowned with electromagnetic antennae, and ringed with seismic stations, transforming into an urban- scale research facility, a living device inhabited by millions of people on the continent’s westernmost edge. The cartographic drawing — part map, part plan, part deep section — takes conceptual inspiration from the book OneFiveFour by Lebbeus Woods.