Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis

Argues that the 20th-century metropolitan region was planned--in response to political and economic conditions of the 1920s and the Depression, the defense emergency, and the immediate postwar years.

Recipient of the Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians

Magnetic Los Angeles challenges the widely held view of the expanding twentieth-century city as the sprawling product of dispersion without planning and lacking any discernable order. Using Los Angeles as a case study, Greg 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.

Author: Greg Hise
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 08/20/1999
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.15w x 0.95d
ISBN: 9780801862557

About the Author

Greg Hise is an associate professor of urban history in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development at the University of Southern California and is coeditor of Rethinking Los Angeles.

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