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.

Download or read book L A Freeway written by David Brodsly and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.

Download or read book The Freeways of Los Angeles written by David I. Thompson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-03-27 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed mini-guidebook about Los Angeles freeways and select boulevards.

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:

Download or read book State Highways and the Los Angeles Metropolitan Freeway System written by Los Angeles (Calif.). Engineering Department and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Freeways Los Angeles Metropolitan Area written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Periodic Measurements of Traffic Service in Metropolitan Los Angeles written by Peter G. Koltnow and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Use of Freeways by the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority written by Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority. Office of the Chief Engineer and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Freeways in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area written by Lloyd M. Braff and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Appraisal of Freeways Vs Surface Streets in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area written by Automobile Club of Southern California. Engineering Department and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Metropolitan Los Angeles Highways by R F Wilcox written by John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How Los Angeles was Unified by Freeways written by California. Division of Highways and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book State Highways and the Los Angeles Metropolitan Freeway System written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Overdrive written by Wim de Wit and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2013 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The drawings, models, and images highlighted in the Overdrive exhibition and catalogue reveal the complex and often underappreciated facets of Los Angeles and illustrate how the metropolis became an internationally recognized destination with a unique design vocabulary, canonical landmarks, and a coveted lifestyle. This investigation builds upon the groundbreaking work of generations of historians, theorists, curators, critics, and activists who have researched and expounded upon the development of Los Angeles. In this volume, thought-provoking essays shed more light on the exhibition's narratives, including Los Angeles's physical landscape, the rise of modernism, the region's influential residential architecture, its buildings for commerce and transportation, and architects' pioneering uses of bold forms, advanced materials, and new technologies. The related exhibition will be held at the J. Paul Getty Museum from April 9 to July 21, 2013.

Download or read book Metropolitan Los Angeles a Study in Integration Highways by R F Wilcox written by John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Express Motor Coach Service Suggested for the Freeways Programmed in the Metropolitan Transportation Engineering Board s Ten year Plan written by Los Angeles Metropolitan Traffic Association and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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