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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Rob SullivanPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781138274594ISBN 10: 1138274593 Pages: 198 Publication Date: 31 October 2016 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Contents: Introduction; Part I Contra This and Contra That: a ""The greatest blonde of them alla (TM); The carceral city; The postmodern city; The non-city. Part II Street Level: Los Angeles in the 21st Century: 21st century urbanism; Real L.A.; Cultural capital; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index."Reviews’Writing against many past attempts to categorize Los Angeles as a particular kind of city, and engaging with contemporary urban theory, this book compellingly argues that Los Angeles exceeds all such categorizations. Emphasizing its extra-urban connectivity and incipient political possibilities, a both/and vision of Los Angeles emerges that is potentially much more broadly applicable.’ Eric Sheppard, University of California, Los Angeles, USA ’Los Angeles is a city with a surfeit of seers, reading this or that lesson for the future everywhere out of its particularities. These overwrought claims about LA and its region are persuasively debunked here and a more complex story of the city as a living space is told. Rob Sullivan forensically pierces LA’s metaphorical balloons to provide a necessary account of the city more familiar to those of us who live there.’ John Agnew , University of California, Los Angeles, USA ’Los Angeles is always interpreted from the sidelines, through the dark lens of dystopian vision or the purple haze of boosterish optimism. Both are frameworks for putdown, and dismissal. Street Level shreds these easy certainties to reveal the city as a paradox: unknowable, yet intimately known to its denizens; without a center yet directly connected to the rest of the globe; on the brink of collapse yet thriving within concentric circles of cultural, political, ethnic, and intellectual life.’ Greg Goldin, Architecture Critic, Los Angeles Magazine, USA For those wishing to learn more about one of the world’s great cities, Street Level is a commendable read: much is to be learnt from this book. LSE Review of Books 'Writing against many past attempts to categorize Los Angeles as a particular kind of city, and engaging with contemporary urban theory, this book compellingly argues that Los Angeles exceeds all such categorizations. Emphasizing its extra-urban connectivity and incipient political possibilities, a both/and vision of Los Angeles emerges that is potentially much more broadly applicable.' Eric Sheppard, University of California, Los Angeles, USA 'Los Angeles is a city with a surfeit of seers, reading this or that lesson for the future everywhere out of its particularities. These overwrought claims about LA and its region are persuasively debunked here and a more complex story of the city as a living space is told. Rob Sullivan forensically pierces LA's metaphorical balloons to provide a necessary account of the city more familiar to those of us who live there.' John Agnew , University of California, Los Angeles, USA 'Los Angeles is always interpreted from the sidelines, through the dark lens of dystopian vision or the purple haze of boosterish optimism. Both are frameworks for putdown, and dismissal. Street Level shreds these easy certainties to reveal the city as a paradox: unknowable, yet intimately known to its denizens; without a center yet directly connected to the rest of the globe; on the brink of collapse yet thriving within concentric circles of cultural, political, ethnic, and intellectual life.' Greg Goldin, Architecture Critic, Los Angeles Magazine, USA For those wishing to learn more about one of the world's great cities, Street Level is a commendable read: much is to be learnt from this book. LSE Review of Books Author InformationDr Rob Sullivan is a lecturer in Geography at UCLA, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |