The Man Who Saw the ‘There’ There

ngelenos are so ridiculously housed, complained novelist Nathanael West in , that only dynamite would suffice to clean up the city’s cockeyed architecture. Robert Winter thought otherwise. With fellow historian David Gebhard, Winter parsed the ways Los Angeles shelters itself and found most of them good. In , Gebhard and Winter drew an opinionated and quirky mid-1960s map for finding a sense of place in a city presumed by its critics to be placeless. The first,