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From Chicago to L.A : making sense of urban theory / edited by Michael J. Dear with J. Dallas Dishman.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urbanization--California--Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.
- Urbanization.
- Urbanization--United States.
- Sociology, Urban--United States.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Los Angeles Metropolitan Area (CA)--Social conditions.
- Los Angeles Metropolitan Area (CA).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 444 p.) : ill. (some col.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- From Chicago to L.A. critically examines some of the major precepts of what some refer to as the Los Angeles School or urban theory. The contributors to this work breaks new ground in defining an alternative agenda for urban studies.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- PART 1: Los Angeles and the "L.A. School"
- 1 - The Resistible Rise of the L.A. School
- 2 - Demographic Dynamism in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and Washington, DC
- 3 - Los Angeles as Postmodern Urbanism
- Part 2: City of Industry
- 4 - Industry and the Landscapes of Social Reform
- 5 - Los Angeles as a Developmental City-State
- 6 - Industrial Urbanism in Late Twentieth Century Southern California
- Part 3: Reconsidering Community
- 7 - From Immigrants in the City, to Immigrant City
- 8 - The Globalization of Urban Homelessness
- 9 - "Play Groups" No Longer
- 10 Religion in Los Angeles
- 11 - Ecologies of Cyberspace
- Part 4: Revisioning Urban Theory
- 12 - Representing "Los Angeles
- 13 - Returning to Ecology
- 14 - Urban Nature and the Nature of Urbanism
- 15 - Saber y Conocer: The Metropolis of Urban Inquiry
- 16 - The L.A. School: A Personal Introduction
- Index
- About the Contributors.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780761920946
- 0761920943
- 9781322306469
- 132230646X
- 9781452267647
- 1452267642
- OCLC:
- 958548862
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