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Learning from Existing Cities
Volume 5, Number 2
Fall 1988

2
Learning From Existing Cities [Caring About Places]
William Porter

3
Reclaiming Ballaja
Andres Mignucci Giannoni

18
Looking, Designing, Looking
Alice Wingwall

23
Architecture and Philanthropy in a Model Company Town
John Garner

36
Lion Street
Joyce Earley Lyndon

40
McUrbia: The 1950s and the Birth of the Contemporary American Landscape
Kenneth Helphand

50
Minding the Store in Eden: Gardens and Houses in The Color Purple
Ann Leone Philbrick

54
Old Sacramento: Place as Presence, Palimpsest, and Performance
David Scofield Wilson

64
A Fictive Sense of Place: Los Angeles in Word and Image
James Goring

72
Dimensional Self-Stability and Displacement in Field-Ordered Directional Alternations
Maurice Smith

87
Contributors 5:2

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