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The fragmented metropolis : Los Angeles, 1850-1930 / by Robert M. Fogelson ; foreword by Robert Fishman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Classics in urban history ; 3.Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1993Description: 1 online resource (xxxii, 362 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520913615
  • 0520913612
  • 0585209758
  • 9780585209753
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fragmented metropolis.DDC classification:
  • 979.4/94 20
LOC classification:
  • F869.L857 F64 1993eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction --- part I. Los Angeles, 1850-1930: from pueblo to town -- Private enterprise, public authority, and urban expansion -- The rivalry between Los Angeles and San Diego -- The great migration -- Transportation, water, and real estate -- Commercial and industrial progress -- Part II. The fragmented metropolis: the urban landscape -- The failure of the electric railways -- The quest for community -- The politics of progressivism -- The municipal ownership movement -- City and regional planning.
Summary: "Here with a new preface, a new foreword, and an updated bibliography is the definitive history of Los Angeles from its beginnings as an agricultural village of fewer than 2,000 people to its emergence as a metropolis of more than 2 million in 1930 -- a city whose distinctive structure, character, and culture foreshadowed much of the development of urban America after World War II."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-296) and index.

"Here with a new preface, a new foreword, and an updated bibliography is the definitive history of Los Angeles from its beginnings as an agricultural village of fewer than 2,000 people to its emergence as a metropolis of more than 2 million in 1930 -- a city whose distinctive structure, character, and culture foreshadowed much of the development of urban America after World War II."--Publisher description.

Introduction --- part I. Los Angeles, 1850-1930: from pueblo to town -- Private enterprise, public authority, and urban expansion -- The rivalry between Los Angeles and San Diego -- The great migration -- Transportation, water, and real estate -- Commercial and industrial progress -- Part II. The fragmented metropolis: the urban landscape -- The failure of the electric railways -- The quest for community -- The politics of progressivism -- The municipal ownership movement -- City and regional planning.

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