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My Los Angeles: From Urban Restructuring to Regional Urbanization
Edward W. Soja
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Description for My Los Angeles: From Urban Restructuring to Regional Urbanization
Paperback. At once informative and entertaining, inspiring and challenging, this book provides an understanding of urban development and change over the past forty years in Los Angeles and other city regions of the world. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white halftones, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JFSG; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
Fighting the distorted imagery attached to Los Angeles, Edward Soja uses LA to rekindle our urban imagination about major issues affecting the world today. Here is a Los Angeles worthy to be learned from, an exemplary city region consisting of a network of at least forty cities with populations greater than 100,000. This polycentric regional city, once the least dense American metropolis, is now the country's densest urbanized area. Traditionally seen as one of the most business-centered environments, Los Angeles has become a major focus for the American labor movement and generator of some of the most innovative urban social ... Read more
Fighting the distorted imagery attached to Los Angeles, Edward Soja uses LA to rekindle our urban imagination about major issues affecting the world today. Here is a Los Angeles worthy to be learned from, an exemplary city region consisting of a network of at least forty cities with populations greater than 100,000. This polycentric regional city, once the least dense American metropolis, is now the country's densest urbanized area. Traditionally seen as one of the most business-centered environments, Los Angeles has become a major focus for the American labor movement and generator of some of the most innovative urban social ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520281745
SKU
V9780520281745
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About Edward W. Soja
Edward W. Soja is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning at University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions and the co-editor of The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century among other books.
Reviews for My Los Angeles: From Urban Restructuring to Regional Urbanization
"An accessible, informative and often entertaining intellectual memoir and tour of the city as seen through the L.A. School, which has contributed some of the most provocative and productive ideas to our understanding of cities in recent history."
Jon Christensen Los Angeles Times
Jon Christensen Los Angeles Times