Inventing Autopia: Dreams and Visions of the Modern Metropolis in Jazz Age Los Angeles
- ISBN-10
- 0520252853
- ISBN-13
- 9780520252851
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-06-02
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod
Description
"Flat-out one of the most interesting books I've read in years. To say that a book about California might rank with Kevin Starr's Americans and the California Dream or Mike Davis' City of Quartz is dangerously high praise, but I think Axelrod's book may someday be in that league."—John Ganim, University of California, Riverside "Inventing Autopia thoughtfully weaves together planning and policy history with cultural history to great effect. It is sure to change our understanding of the ways in which Los Angeles not only grew and developed but envisioned itself in the era."—William Deverell, author of Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past
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