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Book Shaping the Future of Los Angeles County

Download or read book Shaping the Future of Los Angeles County written by Los Angeles County (Calif.). Department of Regional Planning and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shaping the Future 2025

Download or read book Shaping the Future 2025 written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Los Angeles in the 1930s

    Book Details:
  • Author : Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2011-04-05
  • ISBN : 0520948866
  • Pages : 583 pages

Download or read book Los Angeles in the 1930s written by Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles in the 1930s returns to print an invaluable document of Depression-era Los Angeles, illuminating a pivotal moment in L.A.’s history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were creating the images and associations—and the mystique—for which the City of Angels is still known. Many books in one, Los Angeles in the 1930s is both a genial guide and an addictively readable history, revisiting the Spanish colonial period, the Mexican period, the brief California Republic, and finally American sovereignty. It is also a compact coffee table book of dazzling monochrome photography. These whose haunting visions suggest the city we know today and illuminate the booms and busts that marked L.A.’s past and continue to shape its future.

Book New York and Los Angeles

Download or read book New York and Los Angeles written by David Halle and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary analysis of New York and Los Angeles—the nation's two largest cities and urban regions—is the first in-depth study of the two cities and regions to incorporate new census data and an analysis of the impact of the ongoing financial crisis and economic recession.

Book The Reluctant Metropolis

Download or read book The Reluctant Metropolis written by William B. Fulton and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reluctant Metropolis uncovers the stories behind the stories about how Los Angeles has grown and changed in the last twenty years. It portrays a region on the brink of disaster as politicians, developers and even ordinary citizens shape the city's future through shortsighted political gamesmanship. Fulton explores the depths of the anti-urban ethic fostered by L.A. growth brokers to encourage the city's physical expansion.

Book My Los Angeles

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward W. Soja
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2014-03-14
  • ISBN : 0520281721
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book My Los Angeles written by Edward W. Soja and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once informative and entertaining, inspiring and challenging, My Los Angeles provides a deep understanding of urban development and change over the past forty years in Los Angeles and other city regions of the world. Once the least dense American metropolis, Los Angeles is now the countryÕs densest urbanized area and one of the most culturally heterogeneous cities in the world. Soja takes us through this urban metamorphosis, analyzing urban restructuring, deindustrialization and reindustrialization, the globalization of capital and labor, and the formation of an information-intensive New Economy. By examining his own evolving interpretations of Los Angeles and the debates on the so-called Los Angeles School of urban studies, Soja argues that a radical shift is taking place in the nature of the urbanization process, from the familiar metropolitan model to regional urbanization. By looking at such concepts as new regionalism, the spatial turn, the end of the metropolis era, the urbanization of suburbia, the global spread of industrial urbanism, and the transformative urban-industrialization of China, Soja offers a unique and remarkable perspective on critical urban and regional studies.

Book Rethinking Los Angeles

Download or read book Rethinking Los Angeles written by Michael J. Dear and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1996-08-20 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Los Angeles region is increasingly being held up as a prototype for the collective urban future of the United States. Yet it is probably the least understood, most under-studied major city in the US. Very few people beyond the boundaries of Southern California have an accurate appreciation of what the region is, who lives there, and what it does. This groundbreaking collection of essays brings together well-respected contributors to dispel the myths about Southern California and to begin the process of `rethinking' Los Angeles.

Book City of Quartz

Download or read book City of Quartz written by Mike Davis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1992 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hidden story of L.A. Mike davis shows us where the city's money comes form and who controls it while also exposing the brutal ongoing struggle between L.A.'s haves and have-nots.

Book The Next Generation

Download or read book The Next Generation written by John R. D. Celock and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Water and the California Dream

Download or read book Water and the California Dream written by David Carle and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last one hundred years, imported water has transformed the environment of the Golden State and its quality of life, with land ownership patterns and real estate boosterism dramatically altering both urban and rural communities. The key to this transformation has been expanded access to water from the Eastern Sierra, the Colorado River, and Northern California rivers. "Whoever brings the water, brings the people," wrote engineer William Mulholland, under whose leadership the process of growth through irrigation began. Now, using first–person voices of Californians to reveal the resulting changes, author David Carle concludes that it may be time to stop drowning the California dream of the good life with imported water. Using oral histories, contemporary newspaper articles, and autobiographies, Carle explores the historic changes in California, showing how imported water has shaped the pattern of population growth in the state. Because water choices remain the primary tool for shaping California's future, Carle also argues that it is possible to improve both the state's damaged environment and the quality of life if Californians will step out of this historic pattern and embrace limited water supplies as a fact of life in this naturally dry region.

Book A Companion to Los Angeles

Download or read book A Companion to Los Angeles written by William Deverell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion contains 25 original essays by writers and scholars who present an expert assessment of the best and most important work to date on the complex history of Los Angeles. The first Companion providing a historical survey of Los Angeles, incorporating critical, multi-disciplinary themes and innovative scholarship Features essays from a range of disciplines, including history, political science, cultural studies, and geography Photo essays and ‘contemporary voice’ sections combine with traditional historiographic essays to provide a multi-dimensional view of this vibrant and diverse city Essays cover the key topics in the field within a thematic structure, including demography, social unrest, politics, popular culture, architecture, and urban studies

Book Made in California

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephanie Barron
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780520227644
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Made in California written by Stephanie Barron and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unusually inclusive, visually intriguing, and beautifully produced, Made in California will appeal to anyone who has lived in, visited, or imagined California.".

Book Los Angeles County

    Book Details:
  • Author : California. Bureau of State Audits
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book Los Angeles County written by California. Bureau of State Audits and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Los Angeles  a History of the Future

Download or read book Los Angeles a History of the Future written by Paul Glover and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Preserving Los Angeles

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  • Author : KEN. BERNSTEIN
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-09-15
  • ISBN : 9781626400757
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Preserving Los Angeles written by KEN. BERNSTEIN and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ken Bernstein, the City Planner for the City of Los Angeles and a national advocate for historic preservation shares how Los Angeles has led the nation in historic preservation and shares how other cities can do the same. Los Angeles has an image as the "City of the Future"--a city always at the cutting edge of change--but also as a "throwaway metropolis" that cares little about its history or architectural legacy. Yet thereality is quite different. Over the past decade, the City of Los Angeles has developed one of the most successful historic preservation programs in the nation, culminating with the completion of the nation's most ambitious citywide survey of historic resources. All across the city, historic preservation is now transforming Los Angeles, while also pointing the way to how other cities can use preservation to revitalize their neighborhoods and build community. Preserving Los Angeles:How Historic Places Can Transform America's Cities, authored by Ken Bernstein, who oversees Los Angeles' Office of Historic Resources, tells this under-appreciated L.A. story: how historic preservation has been transforming neighborhoods, creating a Downtown renaissance, and guiding the future of the city. While it is younger than many East Coast cities, Los Angeles has a remarkable collection of architectural resources in all styles, reflecting the legacy of notable architects from the past 150 years. As one of the most diverse cities in the world, Los Angeles is also breaking new ground in its approach to historic preservation, extending beyond the preservation of significant architecture, to also identify and protect the places of social and cultural meaning to all of Los Angeles's communities. Preserving Los Angelesilluminates a Los Angeles that will surprise even longtime Angelenos--highlighting dozens of lesser-known buildings, neighborhoods, and places in every corner of the city that have been "found" by SurveyLA, the first-ever city-wide survey of Los Angeles' historic resources. The text is richly illustrated through images by a prominent architectural photographer, Stephen Schafer. Preserving Los Angelesis an authoritative chronicle of Los Angeles' urban transformation-- and a useful guide for citizens and urban practitioners nationally seeking to draw lessons fortheir own cities.

Book Managing Urban Rivers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Victor R. Shinde
  • Publisher : Elsevier
  • Release : 2023-09-23
  • ISBN : 0323910637
  • Pages : 377 pages

Download or read book Managing Urban Rivers written by Victor R. Shinde and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2023-09-23 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing Urban Rivers: From Planning to Practice captures the different facets of river management required for integrating rivers within the development landscape of cities in a sustainable manner. Sections cover the entire spectrum of urban river management, from planning to actual on-the-ground implementation, providing a one-stop destination for knowledge on urban river management. Edited by a team of four experts with practical experience in this domain, the different chapters of the book are authored by eminent scholars and practitioners with expertise in specific areas of urban river management. Urban rivers and their management is a hot topic as governments across the world are focusing on this aspect, especially since it has direct implications for SDG target 6.6, which aims to "protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes. - Presents practical, global case studies in almost every chapter - Provides recommendations for best practices, based on lessons from different successful case studies, as well as the expert insights of the authors - Features contributions from global experts for a unique and specialized approach to the topic of urban rivers

Book Los Angeles Two Thousand

Download or read book Los Angeles Two Thousand written by Jane G. Pisano and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: