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
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).
"This volume of challenging essays . . . usefully steps beyond the usual constraints of urban discourse and analysis, with topics ranging from the evolution of the freeway infrastructure and inequalities among the 36 percent Latino population in the city to the origins of modern fast food at McDonald's San Bernadino drive-in of 1948."--"Architecture Today
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