The City - Los Angeles & Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century (Paper)

1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-520-21313-5
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 483 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scott, Allen J.

Soja, Edward W.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Community Care, Bildung, Freizeit, Freiwilligenarbeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).