Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles

In this 1972 BBC Films production architectural historian Reyner Banham takes the viewer on a tour of what he describes as the four ecologies of the city of Los Angeles Surfurbia Foothills The Plains of Id and Autopia beach basin foothills freeways Noted for his seminal book of essays Los Angeles The Architecture of Four Ecologies published the year before Banham had a love affair with the City of Angels and its bold typologies Open Source Cities