The city : Los Angeles and urban theory at the end of the twentieth century / edited by Allen J. Scott, Edward W. Soja. - Berkeley : University of California Press, �1996. - 1 online resource (xii, 483 pages) : illustrations, maps

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to Los Angeles : city and region / Edward W. Soja and Allen J. Scott -- The first American city / Richard S. Weinstein -- Hetero-architecture and the L.A. school / Charles Jencks -- In the city, time becomes visible : intentionality and urbanism in Los Angeles, 1781-1991 / Michael Dear -- The evolution of transportation policy in Los Angeles : images of past policies and future prospects / Martin Wachs -- How Eden lost its garden : a political history of the Los Angeles Landscape / Mike Davis -- Bounding and binding metropolitan space : the ambiguous politics of nature in Los Angeles / Margaret FitzSimmons and Robert Gottlieb -- L.A. as design product : how art works in a regional economy / Harvey Molotch -- 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 -- Income and racial inequality in Los Angeles / Paul Ong and Evelyn Blumenberg -- A city called heaven : black enchantment and despair in Los Angeles / Susan Anderson -- Latino Los Angeles : reframing boundaries/borders / Raymond A. Rocco -- From global to local : the rise of homelessness in Los Angeles during the 1980s / Jennifer Wolch -- Los Angeles, 1965-1992 : from crisis-generated restructuring to restructuring-generated crisis / Edward W. Soja.

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City planning--California--Los Angeles.
Sociology, Urban--California--Los Angeles.
Urbanisme--Californie--Los Angeles.
Sociologie urbaine--Californie--Los Angeles.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Sociology--Urban.
City planning.
Social conditions
Sociology, Urban.


Los Angeles (Calif.)
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social conditions.
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Conditions sociales.
California--Los Angeles.


Electronic books.

HN80.L7 / C57 1996eb

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