My Los Angeles : from urban restructuring to regional urbanization / Edward W. Soja.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Soja, Edward W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--California--Los Angeles.

City planning.

Regional planning.

Sociology, Urban.

California--Los Angeles.

Sociology, Urban--California--Los Angeles.

Regional planning--California--Los Angeles.

Physical Description:

x, 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]

Summary:

At 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 world's most culturally heterogeneous cities. 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. 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

List of illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

When it first came together in Los Angeles

Taking Los Angeles apart

Inside exopolis : views of Orange County

Comparing Los Angeles

On the postmetropolitan transition

A look beyond Los Angeles

Regional urbanization and the end of the metropolis era

Seeking spatial justice in Los Angeles

Occupy Los Angeles: a very contemporary conclusion

Appendix 1: Source texts by the author

Appendix 2: Complementary video sources

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-278) and index.

ISBN:

9780520281721

0520281721

9780520281745

0520281748

OCLC:

861322939