The City
Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 29. January 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
483 pages
978-0-520-21313-5 (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
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
726 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-21313-5 (9780520213135)
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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
PREFACE
CONTRIBUTORS
1. Introduction to Los Angeles: City and Region
Edward W Soja and Allen I 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
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
INDEX