About this title: 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 ...
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Description: New. "This fresh look at Los Angeles is clearly framed as a study whose subject has national implications...Magnetic Los Angeles is the first authoritative study we have on how the professionalization of planning...affected practice, on how the idea of... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13:9780801862557ISBN:0801862558
Description: Good. 0801862558 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press
Date Published: 1997
Description: Hard cover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Creating the North American landscape. Unknown printing. (alk. paper) xiii, 294 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm. "Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Harrisonburg, Virginia"--P. [iii]. Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-287) and index. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Date Published: 1999
Description: Trade paperback Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Contains: Illustrations. Creating the North American Landscape (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
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