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OverviewSuburban development is often considered synonymous with enhanced personal mobility, single-family housing, and life-cycle homogeneity. According to this view, individual suburbs are residence-only enclaves, isolated commuter-sheds for a managerial and mercantile elite. Magnetic Los Angeles challenges this common vision of the expanding, twentieth-century city as the sprawling product of dispersion without planning, lacking any discernable order. 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. Hise explains how New Deal housing policies and the wartime location of manufacturing spurred the growth of satellite communities on the urban fringe. Here large-scale builders adopted and implemented formal principles and construction practices drawn from environmental reform, regional planning, and the garden city movement. The book has three aims. First, it places the history of city building in southern California in a national context. Second, it explains the changing form of American cities during the twentieth century using Los Angeles as a primary case study. Where other accounts focus exclusively on housing and home building, this book reveals a significant rearrangement of urban functions, the concomitant dispersion of industry and commerce. The third, most ambitious, intention is to uncover and interpret the imaginative structures residents and scholars have devised for understanding American cities and thereby contribute to a reframing of current debates in urban theory. ""Hise has written a fascinating history of L.A. and the thought process behind its developments. He deflates the myth that this megalopolis grew without rhyme or reason.""--Jack Kyser, Los Angeles Times Book Review ""Greg Hise has not only reconceived the history of Los Angeles. He has fundamentally revised the history of the twentieth-century American metropolis. This book combines extensive original research with a fresh reading of the American planning tradition to yield an important new understanding of the growth of the American city."" --Robert Fishman, Rutgers University Full Product DetailsAuthor: Greg Hise (UNLV)Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780801862557ISBN 10: 0801862558 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 15 October 1999 Recommended Age: From 17 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviews<p> Hise posits a thesis that is as revolutionary as it is straightforward: postwar growth in Los Angeles was not as chaotic and unfocused as planners and ordinary observers have generally assumed; rather, suburban nodes of residential development were planted deliberately around established industrial locations -- most notably those related to aircraft design and production -- not in opposition to the city but as mutually beneficial extensions of it. -- Robert Wojtowicz, JSAH Author InformationAuthor Website: http://www.unlv.edu/History/faculty/hise.htmlGreg 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. Tab Content 6Author Website: http://www.unlv.edu/History/faculty/hise.htmlCountries AvailableAll regions |
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