Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to Los Angeles : city and region / Edward W. Soja and Allen J. Scott
  • The first American city / Richard S. Weinstein
  • Hetero-architecture and the L.A. school / Charles Jencks
  • In the city, time becomes visible : intentionality and urbanism in Los Angeles, 1781-1991 / Michael Dear
  • The evolution of transportation policy in Los Angeles : images of past policies and future prospects / Martin Wachs
  • How Eden lost its garden : a political history of the Los Angeles Landscape / Mike Davis
  • Bounding and binding metropolitan space : the ambiguous politics of nature in Los Angeles / Margaret FitzSimmons and Robert Gottlieb
  • L.A. as design product : how art works in a regional economy / Harvey Molotch
  • High-technology industrial development in the San Fernando Valley and Ventura County : observations on economic growth and the evolution of urban form / Allen J. Scott
  • Income and racial inequality in Los Angeles / Paul Ong and Evelyn Blumenberg
  • A city called heaven : black enchantment and despair in Los Angeles / Susan Anderson
  • Latino Los Angeles : reframing boundaries/borders / Raymond A. Rocco
  • From global to local : the rise of homelessness in Los Angeles during the 1980s / Jennifer Wolch
  • Los Angeles, 1965-1992 : from crisis-generated restructuring to restructuring-generated crisis / Edward W. Soja.