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Book Interregional  Regional  Metropolitan Parkways

Download or read book Interregional Regional Metropolitan Parkways written by Los Angeles Metropolitan Parkway Engineering Committee and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Journal of the Assembly During the     Session of the Legislature of the State of California

Download or read book The Journal of the Assembly During the Session of the Legislature of the State of California written by California. Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 2834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Bibliography of Highway Planning Reports Compiled

Download or read book A Bibliography of Highway Planning Reports Compiled written by United States. Bureau of Public Roads. Library and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Bibliography of Highway Planning Reports

Download or read book A Bibliography of Highway Planning Reports written by United States. Bureau of Public Roads. Library and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Los Angeles and the Automobile

Download or read book Los Angeles and the Automobile written by Scott L. Bottles and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987-08-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More comprehensive than any other book on this topic, Los Angeles and the Automobile places the evolution of Los Angeles within the context of American political and urban history.

Book Freewaytopia  How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles

Download or read book Freewaytopia How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles written by Paul Haddad and published by Santa Monica Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles explores how social, economic, political, and cultural demands created the web of expressways whose very form—futuristic, majestic, and progressive—perfectly exemplifies the City of Angels. From the Arroyo Seco, which began construction during the Great Depression, to the Simi Valley and Century Freeways, which were completed in 1993, author Paul Haddad provides an entertaining and engaging history of the 527 miles of road that comprise the Los Angeles freeway system. Each of Los Angeles’s twelve freeways receives its own chapter, and these are supplemented by “Off-Ramps”—sidebars that dish out pithy factoids about Botts’ Dots, SigAlerts, and all matter of freeway lexicon, such as why Southern Californians are the only people in the country who place the word “the” in front of their interstates, as in “the 5,” or “the 101.” Freewaytopia also explores those routes that never saw the light of day. Imagine superhighways burrowing through Laurel Canyon, tunneling under the Hollywood Sign, or spanning the waters of Santa Monica Bay. With a few more legislative strokes of the pen, you wouldn’t have to imagine them—they’d already exist. Haddad notably gives voice to those individuals whose lives were inextricably connected—for better or worse—to the city’s freeways: The hundreds of thousands of mostly minority and lower-class residents who protested against their displacement as a result of eminent domain. Women engineers who excelled in a man’s field. Elected officials who helped further freeways . . . or stop them dead in their tracks. And he pays tribute to the corps of civic and state highway employees whose collective vision, expertise, and dedication created not just the most famous freeway network in the world, but feats of engineering that, at their best, achieve architectural poetry. Finally, let’s not forget the beauty queens—no freeway in Los Angeles ever opened without their royal presence.

Book The Urban Wilderness

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sam Bass Warner
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1995-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780520202245
  • Pages : 428 pages

Download or read book The Urban Wilderness written by Sam Bass Warner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Warner is in some ways almost unique among urban historians in the ways in which he has linked visual and cultural representations with socioeconomic analysis. The strength of The Urban Wilderness is its scope and reach and the author's willingness to take risks intellectually. This book is a work of passion and engagement."--Margaret Marsh, author of Suburban Lives

Book Coordinated Public Planning in the Los Angeles Region

Download or read book Coordinated Public Planning in the Los Angeles Region written by Judith Norvell Jamison and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Highways and Agricultural Engineering  Current Literature

Download or read book Highways and Agricultural Engineering Current Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Highways

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  • Author : Public Roads Bureau
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1946
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 584 pages

Download or read book Highways written by Public Roads Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Freeways of Metropolitan Los Angeles

Download or read book The Freeways of Metropolitan Los Angeles written by Paul T. McElhiney and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bourgeois Utopias

Download or read book Bourgeois Utopias written by Robert Fishman and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted urban historian traces the story of the suburb from its origins in nineteenth-century London to its twentieth-century demise in decentralized cities like Los Angeles.

Book Film Noir and Los Angeles

Download or read book Film Noir and Los Angeles written by Sean W. Maher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines film studies with urban theory in a spatial exploration of twentieth century Los Angeles. Configured through the dark lens of noir, the author examines an alternate urban history of Los Angeles forged by the fictional modes of detective fiction, film noir and neo noir. Dark portrayals of the city are analyzed in Raymond Chandler’s crime fiction through to key films like Double Indemnity (1944) and The End of Violence (1997). By employing these fictional elements as the basis for historicising the city’s unrivalled urban form, the analysis demonstrates an innovative approach to urban historiography. Revealing some of the earliest tendencies of postmodern expression in Hollywood cinema, this book will be of great relevance to students and researchers working in the fields of film, literature, cultural and urban studies. It will also be of interest to scholars researching histories of Los Angeles and the American noir imagination.

Book Bibliography on Automobile Parking in the United States

Download or read book Bibliography on Automobile Parking in the United States written by United States. Federal Works Agency. Library and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: