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Inventing autopia : dreams and visions of the modern metropolis in jazz age Los Angeles
- Title
- Inventing autopia : dreams and visions of the modern metropolis in jazz age Los Angeles / Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod.
- Author
- Axelrod, Jeremiah B. C., 1970-
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 401 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Los Angeles Metropolitan Area (Calif.) > Social conditions > 20th century
- City planning > California > Los Angeles Metropolitan Area > History > 20th century
- Regional planning > California > Los Angeles Metropolitan Area > History > 20th century
- Urbanization > California > Los Angeles Metropolitan Area > History > 20th century
- Sociology, Urban > California > Los Angeles Metropolitan Area > History > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-394) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Looking toward autopia -- Prologue: A city that does not move -- "Los Angeles is not the city it could have been" -- Paradise misplaced -- Imagining the metropolis in a modern age -- Modern Los Angeles -- Metropolis at a crossroads -- Gardens and cities -- Epilogue: A city that moves -- Conclusion: "To dream dreams and see visions."
- Call Number
- IXH (Los Angeles) 09-7471
- ISBN
- 9780520252844 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0520252845 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780520252851 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0520252853 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008025400
- OCLC
- 232605654
- Author
- Axelrod, Jeremiah B. C., 1970-
- Title
- Inventing autopia : dreams and visions of the modern metropolis in jazz age Los Angeles / Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod.
- Imprint
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-394) and index.
- Research Call Number
- IXH (Los Angeles) 09-7471