Magnetic Los Angeles : planning the twentieth-century metropolis / Greg Hise.

Main entry:

Hise, Greg.

Title & Author:

Magnetic Los Angeles : planning the twentieth-century metropolis / Greg Hise.

Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Description:

xiii, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Series:

Creating the North American landscape

Notes:
"Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Harrisonburg, Virginia"--Page [iii].
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-287) and index.
Introduction: Suburbanization as Urbanization -- Modern Community Planning -- The Minimum House -- Model Communities for Migrant Workers -- The Airplane and the Garden City -- Kaiser Community Homes -- "Building a City Where a City Belongs."

Summary:

Suburban development is often considered synonymous with enhanced personal mobility, single-family housing, and life cycle homogeneity. According to this view, individual suburbs are residence-only enclaves, isolated commuter-sheds for a managerial and mercantile elite. Magnetic Los Angeles challenges this common vision of the expanding, twentieth-century city as the sprawling product of dispersion without planning, lacking any discernable order.
Greg Hise argues that the twentieth-century metropolitan region is the product of conscious planning - by policy makers, industrialists, design professionals, community builders, and homebuyers - in direct response to political and economic conditions of the 1920s and the Depression, the defense emergency, and the immediate postwar years.
The book has three aims. First, it places the history of city building in southern California in a national context. Second, it explains the changing form of American cities during the twentieth-century using Los Angeles as a primary case study. Where other accounts focus exclusively on housing and home building, this book reveals a major rearrangement of urban functions and the concomitant dispersion of industry and commerce. The third, most ambitious, intention is to uncover and interpret the imaginative structures residents and scholars have devised for understanding American cities and thereby contribute to a reframing of current debates in urban theory.

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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0801855438 (alk. paper)
9780801855436 (alk. paper)
0801862558 (pbk.)
9780801862557

Subject:

Regional planning California Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.
Land use California Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Planning.
Aménagement du territoire Californie Los Angeles, Agglomération de.
Utilisation du sol Californie Los Angeles, Agglomération de Planification.
Land use Planning
Regional planning
Stadtplanung
Regionalplanung
Stadsplanning.
Ruimtegebruik.
Suburbanisatie.
Regional planning California Los Angeles.
Land use California Los Angeles Planning.
City planning California Los Angeles.
California Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Los Angeles, Calif. Region
Los Angeles, Calif.
Los Angeles (Calif.)

Added entries:

Center for American Places.
Creating the North American landscape.

Los Angeles

Holdings:

Location: Library main 134950
Call No.: ID HT394.L67 H57; ID:97-B602
Status: Available

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