City of Industry - Valle, Victor
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The Southern California suburb prophetically named City of Industry was founded in 1957. City of Industry is a stunning expose of the corporate privatization of California's redevelopment industry. Investigating an untapped archive of Industry's built landscape, media coverage, and public records, including sealed FBI reports, Victor Valle uncovers a cascading series of scandals. This suspenseful narrative gives the backstory of how new governmental technologies and engineering feats brought California to the brink of fiscal collapse.

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Produktbeschreibung
The Southern California suburb prophetically named City of Industry was founded in 1957. City of Industry is a stunning expose of the corporate privatization of California's redevelopment industry. Investigating an untapped archive of Industry's built landscape, media coverage, and public records, including sealed FBI reports, Victor Valle uncovers a cascading series of scandals. This suspenseful narrative gives the backstory of how new governmental technologies and engineering feats brought California to the brink of fiscal collapse.
Autorenporträt
VICTOR VALLE, a professor of ethnic studies at California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, is a former Los Angeles Times investigative reporter, a Pulitzer Prize winner, a coauthor of Latino Metropolis, and, most recently, a Radcliffe Fellow.