Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis

Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis
ISBN-10
0801862558
ISBN-13
9780801862557
Category
Architecture
Pages
320
Language
English
Published
1999-08-20
Publisher
JHU Press
Author
Greg Hise

Description

Suburban development is often considered synonymous with enhanced personal mobility, single-family housing, and life cycle homogeneity. According to this view, individual suburbs are residence-only enclaves, isolated commuter-sheds for a managerial and mercantile elite. Magnetic Los Angeles challenges this common vision of the expanding, twentieth-century city as the sprawling product of dispersion without planning, lacking any discernable order.

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