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‘Los Angeles is fine in many respects, but it lacks legibility – that factor which ultimately involves identity and the whole business of the city as an extension of oneself, and the necessity for comprehension of this extension’ - Alison and Peter Smithson 1

peripheral urbanism | developing a centre by alexander d ’ hooghe and neeraj bhatia

public form and the periphery the case for a ‘plinthesis’

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Exploded axonometric reveals the clarified districts and road networks to support a legible identity.

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