William Fulton

The Reluctant Metropolis

The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles

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Produktbeschreibung

A Los Angeles Times Bestseller "William Fulton is the Raymond Chandler of Los Angeles real estate."--Kevin Starr, California State Librarian and author of Material Dreams: Los Angeles through the 1920s A Los Angeles Times Bestseller"William Fulton is the Raymond Chandler of Los Angeles real estate."--Kevin Starr, California State Librarian and author of Material Dreams: Los Angeles through the 1920s In twelve engaging essays, William Fulton chronicles the history of urban planning in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, tracing the legacy of short-sighted political and financial gains that has resulted in a vast urban region on the brink of disaster. Looking at such diverse topics as shady real estate speculations, the construction of the Los Angeles subway, the battle over the future of South Central L.A. after the 1992 riots, and the emergence of Las Vegas as "the new Los Angeles," Fulton offers a fresh perspective on the city's epic sprawl. The only way to reverse the historical trends that have made Los Angeles increasingly unliveable, Fulton concludes, is to confront the prevailing "cocoon citizenship," the mind-set that prevents the city's inhabitants and leaders from recognizing Los Angeles's patchwork of communities as a single metropolis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 204mm x 143mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780801865060
• ISBN-10: 0801865069
• Artikelnr.: 21639327

Autorenporträt

William Fulton is an urban planning expert and the editor and publisher of California Planning & Development Report and author of The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl (with Peter Calthorpe), Guide to California Planning, and California: Land and Legacy.