Public Los Angeles A Private City's Activist Futures / Don Parson ; edited by Roger Keil and Judy Branfman ; with additional contributions by Dana Cuff, Mike Davis, Steven Flusty, Greg Goldin, Jacqueline Leavitt, Laura Pulido, Sue Ruddick, Tom Sitton, Edward W. Soja, and Jennifer Wolch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parson, Donald Craig, author.

Series:

Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 45

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social justice--California--Los Angeles.

Social justice.

Political activists--California--Los Angeles.

Political activists.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social conditions.

Los Angeles (Calif.).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020

Place of Publication:

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2020.

Summary:

Public Los Angeles is a collection of unpublished essays by scholar Don Parson focusing on little-known characters and histories located in the first half of twentieth-century Los Angeles.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of illustrations

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION Setting the Stage: Los Angeles and Urban Archaeology

PART 1. Don Parson: From Urban Idealism to Reaction-Five Essays

Introduction

CHAPTER 1 A Mecca for the Unfortunate: Housing and Progressive Reform in Los Angeles

CHAPTER 2 "Houses for the Rich Were Also for the Birds": Designing a Better World

CHAPTER 3 "A New Deal Democrat Plus": The Progressive Judicial Career of Stanley Moffatt

CHAPTER 4 Breeding Grounds of Communism: The Gwinn Amendment in Los Angeles' Public Housing

CHAPTER 5 Housing Is a Labor Process: Housing Policy and Housework

PART 2. Hunting Elmer Fudd: Don Parson's Journey through Los Angeles

CHAPTER 6 "Making a Better World": My Intersections with Don Parson, by Tom Sitton

CHAPTER 7 History Repeating . . . , by Sue Ruddick

CHAPTER 8 Of Bunnies and Barricades, by Steven Flusty, with Don Parson

PART 3. Alternative Futures: Don Parson Revisited

CHAPTER 9 Ben Margolis and Gregory Ain: A Meeting of Radical Minds, by Greg Goldin

CHAPTER 10 Power Lines: Boundaries of Erasure and Expansion in Los Angeles, by Dana Cuff

CHAPTER 11 "Downtown Is Not the Heart of the City": Mike Davis in Conversation with Jennifer Wolch and Dana Cuff

CHAPTER 12 Public Housing in Los Angeles: "Adding Space: The First and Final Frontier?," by Jacqueline Leavitt

CHAPTER 13 The City and Spatial Justice, by Edward W. Soja

CHAPTER 14 Race, Class, and Political Activism: Black, Chicana/o, and Japanese American Leftists in Southern California, 1968-1978, by Laura Pulido

On Activist Futures in a Dark Age-A Postscript, by Roger Keil

Don Parson, a Select Bibliography, compiled by B. Uyeda and Judy Branfman

Contributors

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H.

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Z.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8203-5621-2

OCLC:

1134485155