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 ...
In 1930, the Olmsted Brothers and Harland Bartholomew & Associates submitted a report, 'Parks, Playgrounds, and Beaches for the Los Angeles Region,' to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. After a day or two of coverage in the newspapers, the report dropped from sight. The plan set out a system of parks and parkways, children's playgrounds, and ...
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 ...
Most people equate Los Angeles with smog, sprawl, forty suburbs in search of a city - the great "what not to do" of twentieth-century city building. But there's much more to LA's story than this shallow stereotype. History shows that Los Angeles was intensely, ubiquitously planned. The consequences of that planning - the environmental history of ...
Most people equate Los Angeles with smog, sprawl, forty suburbs in search of a city-the great "what-not-to-do" of twentieth-century city building. But there's much more to LA's story than this shallow stereotype. History shows that Los Angeles was intensely, ubiquitously planned. The consequences of that planning-the environmental history of ...
In 1930, the Olmsted Brothers and Harland Bartholomew & Associates submitted a report, 'Parks, Playgrounds, and Beaches for the Los Angeles Region,' to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. After a day or two of coverage in the newspapers, the report dropped from sight. The plan set out a system of parks and parkways, children's playgrounds, and ...
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