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This is a socio-architectural look at the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles. It's an interesting talk. Soja describes the space as so alienating, so hostile to the independance of its users, that I have to wonder if he's exaggerating a bit. At the same time, some of his talk reminds me very much of how I feel sometimes when trying to drive somewhere unfamiliar and I get lost and try to deal with my topgraphical agnosia. It is, in fact, an experience that makes me feel very dependent, very powerless.

Have any of my readers ever been to this hotel? What did you think?

"John Linnell - Montana" (Watch on YouTube)