Main entry:

Hayden, Dolores.

Title & Author:

The power of place : urban landscapes as public history / Dolores Hayden.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1995.

Description:

xvii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-286) and index.
Claiming urban landscapes as public history -- Contested terrain -- Urban landscape history: the sense of place and the politics of space -- Place memory and urban preservation -- Los Angeles: public pasts in the downtown landscape -- Invisible Angelenos -- Workers' landscapes and livelihoods -- The view from Grandma Mason's place -- Rediscovering an African American homestead -- Reinterpreting Latina history at the Embassy Auditorium -- Remembering Little Tokyo on First Street -- Stoytelling with the shapes of time -- Los Angeles after April 29, 1992.

Summary:

"Based on her extensive experience in the urban communities of Los Angeles, historian and architect Dolores Hayden proposes new perspectives on gender, race, and ethnicity to broaden the practice of public history and public art, enlarge urban preservation, and reorient the writing of urban history to spatial struggles." "In the first part of The Power of Place, Hayden outlines the elements of a social history of urban space to connect people's lives and livelihoods to the urban landscape as it changes over time. She then explores how communities and professionals can tap the power of historic urban landscapes to nurture public memory." "The second part documents a decade of research and practice by The Power of Place, a nonprofit organization Hayden founded in downtown Los Angeles. Through public meetings, walking tours, artist's books, and permanent public sculpture, as well as architectural preservation, teams of historians, designers, planners, and artists worked together to understand, preserve, and commemorate urban landscape history as African American, Latino, and Asian American families have experienced it."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0262082373
9780262082372
0262581523
9780262581523

Subject:

Public history California Los Angeles.
Public spaces California Los Angeles.
Minorities California Los Angeles History.
Women California Los Angeles History.
Historic sites Interpretive programs California Los Angeles.
Cities and towns Interpretive programs California Los Angeles.
Public art California Los Angeles.
Cities and towns Interpretive programs.
Minorities history
Histoire appliquée Californie Los Angeles.
Espaces publics Californie Los Angeles.
Minorités Californie Los Angeles Histoire.
Femmes Californie Los Angeles Histoire.
Lieux historiques Programmes d'interprétation Californie Los Angeles.
Villes Programmes d'interprétation.
Art public Californie Los Angeles.
Villes Californie Los Angeles Programmes d'interprétation.
Art Intégration à l'architecture Californie Los Angeles.
Historic sites Interpretive programs
Minorities
Public art
Public history
Public spaces
Women
Sozialgeschichte
Stadtlandschaft
Öffentlicher Raum
Stadscultuur.
Minderheden.
Openbare ruimte.
Womyn.
Minorities California.
Los Angeles (Calif.) History.
Los Angeles
California
Los Angeles (Calif.) Histoire.
California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, Calif.
Urban regions History

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 93025
Call No.: ID F869.L857 H39; ID:95-B885
Status: Available