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The city : Los Angeles and urban theory at the end of the twentieth century

Title: The city : Los Angeles and urban theory at the end of the twentieth century / edited by Allen J. Scott, Edward W. Soja.
Publication: Los Angeles, Calif. : University of California Press, 1996.

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Description

xii, 483 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Experts in urban planning, architecture, and sociology examine the built environment and the dynamics of this extraordinary modern city, emphasizing the dramatic changes that have occurred since 1960. During this period, which has been marked by the two most disruptive urban insurrections in twentieth-century America, what many view as a "restructuring" of Los Angeles has taken place.
Authors employ case studies, empirical vignettes, historical-geographical illustration, and explicit theoretical confrontation to explore such issues as race relations, economics, transportation, and politics.

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Contents

1. Introduction to Los Angeles: City and Region / Edward W. Soja and Allen J. Scott -- 2. The First American City / Richard S. Weinstein -- 3. Hetero-Architecture and the L.A. School / Charles Jencks -- 4. In the City, Time Becomes Visible: Intentionality and Urbanism in Los Angeles, 1781-1991 / Michael Dear -- 5. The Evolution of Transportation Policy in Los Angeles: Images of Past Policies and Future Prospects / Martin Wachs -- 6. How Eden Lost Its Garden: A Political History of the Los Angeles Landscape / Mike Davis -- 7. Bounding and Binding Metropolitan Space: The Ambiguous Politics of Nature in Los Angeles / Margaret FitzSimmons and Robert Gottlieb -- 8. L.A. as Design Product: How Art Works in a Regional Economy / Harvey Molotch -- 9. High-Technology Industrial Development in the San Fernando Valley and Ventura County: Observations on Economic Growth and the Evolution of Urban Form / Allen J. Scott --
10. Income and Racial Inequality in Los Angeles / Paul Ong and Evelyn Blumenberg -- 11. A City Called Heaven: Black Enchantment and Despair in Los Angeles / Susan Anderson -- 12. Latino Los Angeles: Reframing Boundaries/Borders / Raymond A. Rocco -- 13. From Global to Local: The Rise of Homelessness in Los Angeles during the 1980s / Jennifer Wolch -- 14. Los Angeles, 1965-1992: From Crisis-Generated Restructuring to Restructuring-Generated Crisis / Edward W. Soja.

ISBN

0520204247 (alk. paper)

LCCN

96005512

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Columbia University Libraries