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100 1 $aHise, Greg.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96030582
245 10 $aMagnetic Los Angeles :$bplanning the twentieth-century metropolis /$cGreg Hise.
260 $aBaltimore :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$c1997.
300 $axiii, 294 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aCreating the North American landscape
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [263]-287) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Suburbanization as Urbanization --$gCh. 1.$tModern Community Planning --$gCh. 2.$tThe Minimum House --$gCh. 3.$tModel Communities for Migrant Workers --$gCh. 4.$tThe Airplane and the Garden City --$gCh. 5.$tKaiser Community Homes --$gCh. 6.$t"Building a City Where a City Belongs"
520 $aSuburban 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.
520 8 $aGreg Hise argues that the twentieth-century metropolitan region is the product of conscious planning - by policy makers, industrialists, design professionals, community builders, and homebuyers - in direct response to political and economic conditions of the 1920s and the Depression, the defense emergency, and the immediate postwar years.
520 8 $aThe book has three aims. First, it places the history of city building in southern California in a national context. Second, it explains the changing form of American cities during the twentieth-century using Los Angeles as a primary case study. Where other accounts focus exclusively on housing and home building, this book reveals a major rearrangement of urban functions and the concomitant dispersion of industry and commerce.
520 8 $aThe third, most ambitious, intention is to uncover and interpret the imaginative structures residents and scholars have devised for understanding American cities and thereby contribute to a reframing of current debates in urban theory.
650 0 $aRegional planning$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles Metropolitan Area.
650 0 $aLand use$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles Metropolitan Area$xPlanning.
830 0 $aCreating the North American landscape.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86703293
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852 00 $bbar$hHT394.L67$iH57 1997