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Book Property Taxes Law Guide

Download or read book Property Taxes Law Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book California State Publications

Download or read book California State Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Inventing Paradise

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Haddad
  • Publisher : Santa Monica Press
  • Release : 2024-06-18
  • ISBN : 1595807586
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Inventing Paradise written by Paul Haddad and published by Santa Monica Press. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles traces the improbable rise of Los Angeles through the prism of six visionaries who had outsize influence on the city’s growth: Phineas Banning, Harrison Gray Otis, Henry Huntington, Harry Chandler, William Mulholland, and Moses Sherman. In the late 1870s, Los Angeles was a violent, dusty, 29-square-mile pueblo with a few thousand souls, largely unchanged since its founding in 1781. By 1930, its size had swelled to within 96% of its current 468 square miles, housing a staggering 1.2 million people. In just 50 years, L.A. had joined the ranks of other world-class cities. In the tradition of Mike Davis’s classic work City of Quartz, Paul Haddad (Freewaytopia and 10,000 Steps a Day in L.A.) debunks many myths about the City of Angels with a wildly entertaining narrative that sheds new light on the fascinating birth of modern Los Angeles. Power came from a select few, whose triumphs, scandals, and correspondence are well documented in Inventing Paradise, along with other little-known facts about L.A. history, including: How Los Angeles Times chief Harry Chandler pushed eugenics and endorsed “white spots” Henry Huntington’s and Moses Sherman’s trolley systems and the extortion-type practices that led to their expansion When Los Angeles was so desperate for water, it hired a miracle worker who promised rain How L.A.’s power elite peddled the lie that the Owens River used to flow into Los Angeles and rightfully belonged to the city When Los Angeles annexed a city in which monkeys cast votes How Venice, California, was not the first Venice, California William Mulholland’s game-changing construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, which raised the city’s population ceiling from 250,000 to 2.5 million Haddad also covers the heavy costs that came with creating paradise in such a short period of time, including car dependency, environmental problems, and deep-seated inequities between wealthy white Angelenos and people of color due to racist policies. All have left an imprint on present-day Los Angeles. Los Angeles is known as a city that should not exist—and yet it does. Through Inventing Paradise, Haddad shows readers that Los Angeles is not a paradise found, but a paradise that was willed into existence, owing to the collective vision of these six Gilded Era-born tycoons.

Book California Land use and Planning Law

Download or read book California Land use and Planning Law written by Daniel J. Curtin and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Taking Their Pulse

Download or read book Taking Their Pulse written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book California Legal Forms

Download or read book California Legal Forms written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Special Districts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 82 pages

Download or read book Special Districts written by Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book California Public Policy Bibliography

Download or read book California Public Policy Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book California Environmental Law Reporter

Download or read book California Environmental Law Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Growth Within Bounds

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  • Author : California. Commission on Local Governance for the 21st Century
  • Publisher : DIANE Publishing
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780756706319
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Growth Within Bounds written by California. Commission on Local Governance for the 21st Century and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1997 the State of California Legislature created the Commission on Local Governance for the 21st Century to review current statutes &, where appropriate, recommend revisions to the laws that govern city, county, and special district boundary changes. Over a period of 16 months, the Commission held 25 days of public hearings, received over 100 recommendations, and had nearly 90,000 visits to the commission's website. Based upon this extensive input and deliberations on the information received, the Commission has issued this report, which concludes with a strategic plan for its implementation by the California Legislature. Illustrated.

Book Final Report

    Book Details:
  • Author : California. Grand Jury (San Mateo County)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Final Report written by California. Grand Jury (San Mateo County) and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: