Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis
(Part of the Creating the North American Landscape Series)
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Argues that the 20th-century metropolitan region was planned--in response to political and economic conditions of the 1920s and the Depression, the defense emergency, and the immediate postwar years. Recipient of the Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians Magnetic Los Angeles challenges the widely held view of the expanding twentieth-century city as the sprawling product of dispersion without...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0801862558
ISBN13:9780801862557
Release Date:August 1999
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.23 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"
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