Dear STOC,
Quickly, between meetings: your readings for this Saturday.
Robert Girardin has generously provided us with his manuscript. Attached. We will be visiting a slice of these sites along the Santa Ana River. He has also taken the time to prepare us a photo supplement.
Please also read, from Variations on a Theme Park, Margaret Crawford’s The World in a Shopping Mall. I will be scanning and sending you Crawford’s take on Jon Jerde — the author of two of our local malls/landmarks, Fashion Island and Urbanopolis — ASAP.
Lastly, in homage to Robert’s homage, please read Charles Moore’s prescient You Have to Pay for the Public Life. Attached. More information about this piece can be found here. (So read this too.)
Logistics soon,
-Jesse