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OverviewAt once informative and entertaining, inspiring and challenging, My Los Angeles provides a deep understanding of urban development and change over the past forty years in Los Angeles and other city regions of the world. Once the least dense American metropolis, Los Angeles is now the country's densest urbanized area and one of the most culturally heterogeneous cities in the world. Soja takes us through this urban metamorphosis, analyzing urban restructuring, deindustrialization and reindustrialization, the globalization of capital and labor, and the formation of an information-intensive New Economy. By examining his own evolving interpretations of Los Angeles and the debates on the so-called Los Angeles School of urban studies, Soja argues that a radical shift is taking place in the nature of the urbanization process, from the familiar metropolitan model to regional urbanization. By looking at such concepts as new regionalism, the spatial turn, the end of the metropolis era, the urbanization of suburbia, the global spread of industrial urbanism, and the transformative urban-industrialization of China, Soja offers a unique and remarkable perspective on critical urban and regional studies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Edward W. SojaPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9780520281721ISBN 10: 0520281721 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 14 March 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 * When It First Came Together in Los Angeles 2 * Taking Los Angeles Apart 3 * Inside Exopolis: Views of Orange County 4 * Comparing Los Angeles 5 * On the Postmetropolitan Transition 6 * A Look Beyond Los Angeles 7 * Regional Urbanization and the End of the Metropolis Era 8 * Seeking Spatial Justice in Los Angeles 9 * Occupy Los Angeles: A Very Contemporary Conclusion Appendix 1: Source Texts by the Author Appendix 2: Complementary Video Sources IndexReviewsAn accessible, informative and often entertaining intellectual memoir and tour of the city as seen through the L.A. School, which has contributed some of the most provocative and productive ideas to our understanding of cities in recent history. -- Jon Christensen Los Angeles Times 20140330 """An accessible, informative and often entertaining intellectual memoir and tour of the city as seen through the L.A. School, which has contributed some of the most provocative and productive ideas to our understanding of cities in recent history."" -- Jon Christensen Los Angeles Times" Author InformationEdward W. Soja is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning at University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions and the co-editor of The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century among other books. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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