The Next Los Angeles, Updated with a New Preface: The Struggle for a Livable City
- ISBN-10
- 0520933494
- ISBN-13
- 9780520933491
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-08-07
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Authors
- Robert Gottlieb, Peter Dreier, Regina Freer
Description
While most historians, journalists, and filmmakers have focused on Los Angeles as a bastion of corporate greed, business boosterism, political corruption, cheap labor, exploited immigrants, and unregulated sprawl, The Next Los Angeles tells a different story: that of the reformers and radicals who have struggled for alternative visions of social and economic justice. In a new preface, the authors reflect on the gathering momentum of L.A.'s progressive movement, including the 2005 landslide victory of Antonio Villaraigosa as mayor.
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