Hidden in Plain Sight: La Jolla / UTC Annex, An-Edge City Charles G. Miller
Hidden In Plain Sight: La Jolla / UTC Annex, An-Edge City Charles G. Miller To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle. -George Orwell Hidden In Plain Sight: La Jolla / UTC Annex, An-Edge City Charles G. Miller 2010 Acknowledgements: Friends have been instrumental to this project. My humblest gratitude to the generous assistance of Christina Nguyen, Monica Duncan, Anna Chiaretta Lavatelli, and Richard E. Bott and Mom. For your sage wisdom: Teddy Cruz, Ricardo Dominguez, Grant Kester and Keith Pezzoli. Thank you as well for dialog and advice: Kyong Park, Louis Hock, Cauleen Smith, Steve Fagin, and Phel Steinmetz. B.J. Barclay and Giancarlo Ruiz have been invaluable institutional liaisons. I am indebted to the rigorous provocations and enthusiastic support of James A. Enos and Eun Jung Park Smith. This book is for educational purposes only and not intended for resale. This project was undertaken with the support of: The Russell Foundation The Center for Global California Studies The Visual Arts Department at UCSD 2010 Charles G. Miller charlesgmiller.com hollywoodshower.com Introduction The sprawling conglomerate of technology and lab parks, gated condo complexes and a central mall, that has sprung up in the past 30+/- years, adjacent to the University of California, San Diego cam- pus (from here in, referred to as UCSD) is typical of the form of land use that Joel Garreau has identified, albeit uncritically, as “Edge City” in his seminal text of the same name. Garreau’s 1991 piece of ideo- logically inflected reportage (frequently reading like a bald promotion) has gone further than any other source that I am aware of toward identifying the urbanistic, cultural, and socioeconomic criteria of this phenomena, otherwise largely recognizable, (those mid-rise subur- ban mega-centers, unapproachable without a car), and just as readily dismissed as innocuous.
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