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Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis (Creating the North American Landscape) - Hardcover

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Hise, Greg

 
9780801855436: Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis (Creating the North American Landscape)

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Places the history of city building in southern California in a national context, explains the changing form of American cities during the 20th century using Los Angeles as a case study, and interprets the structures residents and scholars have devised for understanding American cities. Argues that the 20th-century metropolitan region is the product of conscious planning in response to political and economic conditions of the 1920s and 1930s, the defense emergency, and the immediate postwar years. Includes b&w photos and illustrations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Greg Hise is an associate professor of urban history in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development at the University of Southern California and is coeditor of Rethinking Los Angeles.

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9780801862557: Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis (Creating the North American Landscape)

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ISBN 10:  0801862558 ISBN 13:  9780801862557
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999
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