From Chicago to L.A.
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From Chicago to L.A.

Making Sense of Urban Theory

  1. 456 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

From Chicago to L.A.

Making Sense of Urban Theory

About this book

 

For most of the twentieth century, the principles of the "Chicago School" have guided urban analysts throughout the world. Los Angeles has been regarded as an exception to the rules governing the growth of American cities. But just as the Chicago School emerged at a time when that city was reaching new national prominence, Los Angeles is now making its impression on the minds of urbanists across the world.

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
  • The utility of the "Los Angeles School" of urbanism

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. PART 1: Los Angeles and the “L.A. School”
  5. 1 - The Resistible Rise of the L.A. School
  6. 2 - Demographic Dynamism in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and Washington, DC
  7. 3 - Los Angeles as Postmodern Urbanism
  8. Part 2: City of Industry
  9. 4 - Industry and the Landscapes of Social Reform
  10. 5 - Los Angeles as a Developmental City-State
  11. 6 - Industrial Urbanism in Late Twentieth Century Southern California
  12. Part 3: Reconsidering Community
  13. 7 - From Immigrants in the City, to Immigrant City
  14. 8 - The Globalization of Urban Homelessness
  15. 9 - "Play Groups" No Longer
  16. 10 Religion in Los Angeles
  17. 11 - Ecologies of Cyberspace
  18. Part 4: Revisioning Urban Theory
  19. 12 - Representing "Los Angeles"
  20. 13 - Returning to Ecology
  21. 14 - Urban Nature and the Nature of Urbanism
  22. 15 - Saber y Conocer: The Metropolis of Urban Inquiry
  23. 16 - The L.A. School: A Personal Introduction
  24. Index
  25. About the Contributors