Best Practices - A photo essay about Los Angeles and its messy relationship with building materials, signage systems, communication equipment, plant life, and people

Drawing on the history of architecture, media theory, cultural anthropology, and urban studies, Best Practices pairs photographic documentation with extensive captions and citations to define a territory within the margins between the sanctioned and unsanctioned, the regulated and unregulated, the tasteful and tacky, the novel and the nonsense.