L. A. Freeway: An Appreciative Essay
- ISBN-10
- 0520045467
- ISBN-13
- 9780520045460
- Category
- Express highways
- Pages
- 178
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1983-01-01
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- David Brodsly
Description
29''Los Angeles in a New Image , " Life , 20 June 1960 , p . 75 . 30Benjamin Stein , Dreemz ( New York : Harper & Row , 1978 ) , p . 48 . 31 Kevin Lynch , Images of the City ( Cambridge : MIT Press , 1960 ) , pp . 51-67 .
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