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Venice : a contested Bohemia in Los Angeles / Andrew Deener.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Deener, Andrew, 1976-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bohemianism.
- Urbanization.
- City and town life.
- Neighborhoods.
- Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Social conditions.
- Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.).
- Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Social life and customs.
- Neighborhoods--California--Los Angeles.
- City and town life--California--Los Angeles.
- Urbanization--California--Los Angeles.
- Bohemianism--California--Los Angeles.
- California--Los Angeles.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 306 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- Nestled between Santa Monica and Marina del Rey, Venice is a Los Angeles community filled with apparent contradictions. From street to street, and from block to block, million-dollar homes stand near housing projects and homeless encampments, and upscale boutiques are a short walk away from the eclectic Venice Beach, where artists and carnival performers practice their crafts. In Venice: A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles, Andrew Deener invites the reader on a close-up tour of this legendary California beach community and the people who live there.
- Deener brings a scholarly eye to bear on the effects of gentrification, homelessness, segregation, and immigration on this community. Through stories from five different parts of Venice-Oakwood, Rose Avenue, the boardwalk, the Canals, and Abbot Kinney Boulevard-Deener reveals why Venice was able to maintain its diversity for so long and identifies the social and political factors that threaten it. Drenched in the details of Venice's transformation, his themes and explanations will resonate far beyond this case study. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Welcome to Venice
- A beach town in transition
- The "black section" of Venice
- People out of place
- Scenic neighborhood
- Bohemian theme park
- Fashionable Bohemia
- The future of the American city.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226140001
- 0226140008
- 9780226140018
- 0226140016
- OCLC:
- 756577806
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