| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 444 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Los Angeles and the "L.A. school". The resistable rise of the L.A. school / Michael J. Dear and Steven Flusty ; Demographic dynamism in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and Washington, DC / Dowell Myers ; Los Angeles as postmodern urbanism / Michael J. Dear and Steven Flusty -- Photo essay. Imagining postmodern urbanism / Michael J. Dear -- pt. 2. City of industry. Industry and the landscapes of social reform / Greg Hise ; Los Angeles as a developmental city-state / Steven P. Erie -- Industrial urbanism in late-twentieth-century southern California / Allen J. Scott -- pt. 3. Reconsidering community. From immigrants in the city, to immigrant city / Jerome Straughan and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo ; The globalization of urban homelessness / Madeleine R. Stoner ; "Play groups" no longer: urban street gangs in the Los Angeles region / Cheryl L. Maxson and Malcolm W. Klein ; Religion in Los Angeles: patterns of spiritual practice in a postmodern city / Donald E. Miller ; Ecologies of cyberspace: gay communities on the Internet / J. Dallas Dishman -- pt. 4. Revisioning urban theory. Representing "Los Angeles": media, space, and place / Darnell M. Hunt ; Returning to ecology: an ecosystem approach to understanding the city / Ashwani Vasishth and David C. Sloane ; Urban nature and the nature of urbanism / Jennifer Wolch, Stephanie Pincetl, and Laura Pulido ; Saber y conocer: the metropolis of urban inquiry / Philip J. Ethington and Martin Meeker ; The L.A. school: a personal introduction / Michael J. Dear |
| Summary |
"From Chicago to L.A. begins the task of defining an alternative agenda for urban studies and examines the case for shifting the focus of urban studies from Chicago to Los Angeles. The authors, experienced scholars from a variety of disciplines, examine: the concepts that have blocked our understanding of Southern California cities; the imaginative structures that people have been using to understand and explain Los Angeles; and the utility of the "Los Angeles School" of urbanism."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Urbanization -- California -- Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
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Urbanization -- United States
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Sociology, Urban -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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Social conditions
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Sociology, Urban
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Urbanization
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Stadtsoziologie
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Agglomération urbaine.
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Condition sociale.
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Développement urbain.
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Sociologie urbaine.
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Urbanisation.
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Urbanisme.
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| SUBJECT |
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area (Calif.) -- Social conditions
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California -- Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
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United States
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Los Angeles, Calif.
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États-Unis.
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Los Angeles (Calif.)
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Dear, M. J. (Michael J.)
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Dishman, J. Dallas
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| LC no. |
2001000421 |
| ISBN |
9781452267647 |
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1452267642 |
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9781452231211 |
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1452231214 |
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132230646X |
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9781322306469 |
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0761920943 |
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9780761920946 |
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