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Overview"In 1920, as its population began to explode, Los Angeles was a largely pastoral city of bungalows and palm trees. Thirty years later, choked with smog and traffic, the city had become synonymous with urban sprawl and unplanned growth. Yet Los Angeles was anything but unplanned, as Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod reveals in this compelling, visually oriented history of the metropolis during its formative years. In a deft mix of cultural and intellectual history that brilliantly illuminates the profound relationship between imagination and place, ""Inventing Autopia"" shows how the clash of irreconcilable utopian visions and dreams resulted in the invention of an unforeseen new form of urbanism - sprawling, illegible, fractured - that would reshape not only Southern California but much of the nation in the years to come." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jeremiah B.C. AxelrodPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.494kg ISBN: 9780520252844ISBN 10: 0520252845 Pages: 416 Publication Date: 02 June 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsWhat Inventing Autopia does, it does very well. --Technology And Culture Axelrod unearths some fascinating material ... a substantial work. --Urban History A solid contribution to scholarship on planning history in the 1920s. --Journal of Planning Education & Research Provocative and insightful book. --Southern California Quarterly What Inventing Autopia does, it does very well. --Technology And Culture Provocative and insightful book. --Southern California Quarterly What Inventing Autopia does, it does very well. --Technology And Culture What Inventing Autopia does, it does very well. --Technology And Culture Provocative and insightful book. --Southern California Quarterly A solid contribution to scholarship on planning history in the 1920s. --Jrnl of Planning Education & Research Author InformationJeremiah B.C. Axelrod is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Program in Cultural Studies at Occidental College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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