Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis

by Greg Hise and Professor Greg Hise

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801862558
• ISBN13: 9780801862557
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"