The City
Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
Published on 29. January 1997
Book
Hardback
483 pages
978-0-520-20424-9 (ISBN)
Description
Los Angeles has grown from a scattered collection of towns and villages to one of the largest megacities in the world. In the process, it has inspired controversy among critics and scholars, as well as among its residents. Seeking original perspectives rather than consensus, the editors of The City have assembled a variety of essays examining the built environment and human dynamics of this extraordinary modern city, emphasizing the dramatic changes that have occurred since 1960. Together the essays-by experts in urban planning, architecture, geography, and sociology-create a new kind of urban analysis, one that is open to diversity but strongly committed to collective theoretical and practical understanding.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 44 mm
Weight
953 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-20424-9 (9780520204249)
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Persons
Allen J. Scott is Professor of Geography and Associate Dean of the School of Public Policy and Social Research at the University of California, Los Angeles. His previous books include Technopolis: High-Technology Industry and Regional Development in Southern California (California, 1993). Edward W. Soja is Professor of Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-Imagined Places (1996).
Content
Introduction to Los Angeles, Edward W. Soja and Allen J. Scott; hetero-architecture and the L.A school, Charles Jencks; the first American city, Richard Weinstein; in the city, time becomes visible, Michael Dear; the evolution of transportation policy in Los Angeles, Martin Wachs; how Eden lost its garden, Mike Davis; bounding and binding metropolitan space, Margaret FitzSimmons and Robert Gottlieb; L.A. as product, Harvey Molotch; high-technology industrial developmentin the San Fernando Valley and Ventura County, Allen J. Scott; income and racial inequality in Los Angeles, Paul Ong and Evelyn Blumenberg; a city called heaven, Susan Anderson; Latino Los Angeles, Raymond A. Rocco; from global to local, Jennifer Walch; Los Angeles 1965-1992, Edward W. Soja.