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Author : Raphael Sonenshein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780966899115
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (991 download)
Download or read book Los Angeles written by Raphael Sonenshein and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rosecrans Baldwin
Publisher : MCD
ISBN 13 : 0374721076
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Everything Now written by Rosecrans Baldwin and published by MCD. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER. NAMED A BEST CALIFORNIA BOOKS OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES A provocative, exhilaratingly new understanding of the United States’ most confounding metropolis—not just a great city, but a full-blown modern city-state America is obsessed with Los Angeles. And America has been thinking about Los Angeles all wrong, for decades, on repeat. Los Angeles is not just the place where the American dream hits the Pacific. (It has its own dreams.) Not just the vanishing point of America’s western drive. (It has its own compass.) Functionally, aesthetically, mythologically, even technologically, an independent territory, defined less by distinct borders than by an aura of autonomy and a sense of unfurling destiny—this is the city-state of Los Angeles. Deeply reported and researched, provocatively argued, and eloquently written, Rosecrans Baldwin's Everything Now approaches the metropolis from unexpected angles, nimbly interleaving his own voice with a chorus of others, from canonical L.A. literature to everyday citizens. Here, Octavia E. Butler and Joan Didion are in conversation with activists and astronauts, vampires and veterans. Baldwin records the stories of countless Angelenos, discovering people both upended and reborn: by disasters natural and economic, following gospels of wealth or self-help or personal destiny. The result is a story of a kaleidoscopic, vibrant nation unto itself—vastly more than its many, many parts. Baldwin’s concept of the city-state allows us, finally, to grasp a place—Los Angeles—whose idiosyncrasies both magnify those of America, and are so fully its own. Here, space and time don’t quite work the same as they do elsewhere, and contradictions are as stark as southern California’s natural environment. Perhaps no better place exists to watch the United States’s past, and its possible futures, play themselves out. Welcome to Los Angeles, the Great American City-State.
Author : Rachel Surls
Publisher : Angel City Press
ISBN 13 : 9781626400313
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (3 download)
Download or read book From Cows to Concrete written by Rachel Surls and published by Angel City Press. This book was released on 2016-05-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What? Los Angeles was the original wine country of California, leading the state's wine production for more than a century? Los Angeles County was the agricultural center of North America until the 1950s? And where today's freeways soar, cows calmly chewed their cud? How could that be? Los Angeles, the capital of asphalt and Klieg lights, was once a paradise filled with grapevines and bovines, so abundant with Nature's gifts that no one could imagine a more pastoral place? Los Angeles County was the center of an agricultural empire. Today, it is the nation's most populous urban metropolis. What happened? Where did the green go? As Americans connect with gardens, farmers markets, and urban farms, most are unaware that each of these activities have deep roots in Los Angeles, and that the healthy food they savor literally had its roots in L.A. This book is for all who treasure the country's agrarian history.
Author : Tax Payers' Association of California
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book City and County Consolidation for Los Angeles written by Tax Payers' Association of California and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Josh Sides
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520939868
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (398 download)
Download or read book L.A. City Limits written by Josh Sides and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-01-27 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1964 an Urban League survey ranked Los Angeles as the most desirable city for African Americans to live in. In 1965 the city burst into flames during one of the worst race riots in the nation's history. How the city came to such a pass—embodying both the best and worst of what urban America offered black migrants from the South—is the story told for the first time in this history of modern black Los Angeles. A clear-eyed and compelling look at black struggles for equality in L.A.'s neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces from the Great Depression to our day, L.A. City Limits critically refocuses the ongoing debate about the origins of America's racial and urban crisis. Challenging previous analysts' near-exclusive focus on northern "rust-belt" cities devastated by de-industrialization, Josh Sides asserts that the cities to which black southerners migrated profoundly affected how they fared. He shows how L.A.'s diverse racial composition, dispersive geography, and dynamic postwar economy often created opportunities—and limits—quite different from those encountered by blacks in the urban North.
Author : John C. Bollens
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520350219
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Local Government in California written by John C. Bollens and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1951.
Author : Robert Gottlieb
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520240006
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Next Los Angeles written by Robert Gottlieb and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-01-17 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With this rich account of its community and labor struggles, the city of angels—and apocalypse—becomes the city of hope."—Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America "This wonderful book, with its evocations of LA's alternative histories, and its bold templates for social and environmental justice, is proof that the American Left is alive and well, especially in Southern California."—Mike Davis, author of Dead Cities "A rare book combining history, analysis, strategy and a platform – and it may well be carried out in this decade."—Tom Hayden, former State Senator, Los Angeles
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Local Government in California written by and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Letitia Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781637650417
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Mommy is the Mayor written by Letitia Clark and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mommy is the Mayor is a narrative about a city mayor's role. Seen through the eyes of children, it opens up the world to convey the impact local government has on their everyday lives. The book touches on the need for representation through the diverse illustrations and the demonstration of role modeling for children of color. Mommy is the Mayor hopes to inspire an interest in serving at the local level, raising awareness about the importance of running for office, while exploring non-traditional roles in government for diverse populations.
Author : Robert Gottlieb
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520250095
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Next Los Angeles written by Robert Gottlieb and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-08-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With this rich account of its community and labor struggles, the city of angels—and apocalypse—becomes the city of hope."—Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America "This wonderful book, with its evocations of LA's alternative histories, and its bold templates for social and environmental justice, is proof that the American Left is alive and well, especially in Southern California."—Mike Davis, author of Dead Cities "A rare book combining history, analysis, strategy and a platform – and it may well be carried out in this decade."—Tom Hayden, former State Senator, Los Angeles
Author : Raphael J. Sonenshein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400849640
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The City at Stake written by Raphael J. Sonenshein and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The City at Stake tells the dramatic story of how the nation's second-largest city completed a major reform of its government in the face of a deeply threatening movement for secession by the San Fernando Valley. How did Los Angeles, a diverse city with an image of unstructured politics and fragmented government, find a way to unify itself around a controversial set of reforms? Los Angeles government nearly collapsed in political bickering over charter reform, which generated the remarkable phenomenon of two competing charter reform commissions. Out of this nearly impossible tangle, reformers managed to knit a new city charter that greatly expanded institutions for citizen participation and addressed long-standing weaknesses in the role of the mayor. The new charter, pursued by a Republican mayor, won its greatest support from liberal whites who had long favored reform measures. Written by an urban scholar who played a key role in the charter reform process, the book offers both a theoretical perspective on the process of institutional reform in an age of diversity, and a firsthand, inside-the-box look at how major reform works. The new afterword by the author analyzes the 2005 election of Los Angeles's first modern Latino mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, a milestone in the development of urban reform coalitions in an age of immigration and ethnic diversity.
Author : Edgar H Bachrach
Publisher : Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 : 0809337517
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The New Chicago Way written by Edgar H Bachrach and published by Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all the wrong reasons, a national spotlight is shining on Chicago. The city has become known for its violence, police abuse, parent and teacher unrest, population decline, and mounting municipal and pension debt. The underlying problem, contend Ed Bachrach and Austin Berg, is that deliberative democracy is dead in the city. Chicago is home to the last strongman political system in urban America. The mayor holds all the power, and any perceived checks on mayoral control are often proven illusory. Rash decisions have resulted in poor outcomes. The outrageous consequences of unchecked power are evident in government failures in elections, schools, fiscal discipline, corruption, public support for private enterprise, policing, and more. Rather than simply lament the situation, criticize specific leaders, or justify an ideology, Bachrach and Berg compare the decisions about Chicago’s governance and finances with choices made in fourteen other large U.S. cities. The problems that seem unique to Chicago have been encountered elsewhere, and Chicagoans, the authors posit, can learn from the successful solutions other cities have embraced. Chicago government and its citizens must let go of the past to prepare for the future, argue Bachrach and Berg. A future filled with demographic, technological, and economic change requires a government capable of responding and adapting. Reforms can transform the city. The prescriptions for change provided in this book point toward a hopeful future: the New Chicago Way.
Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Composite Finances in Selected City Areas written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Composite Finances in Selected City Areas: a Special Survey Sponsored by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Intermediate Report of the Committee on Government Operations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 1388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick D. Joyce
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150173136X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book No Fire Next Time written by Patrick D. Joyce and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did Black-Korean tensions result in violent clashes in Los Angeles but not in New York City? In a book based on fieldwork and on a nationwide database he constructed to track such conflicts, Patrick D. Joyce goes beyond sociological and cultural explanations. No Fire Next Time shows how political practices and urban institutions can channel racial and ethnic tensions into protest or, alternately, leave them free to erupt violently. Few encounters demonstrate this connection better than those between African Americans and Korean Americans.Cities like New York, where politics is noisy, contentious, and involves people at the grassroots, have seen extensive Black boycotts of Korean-owned businesses (usually small grocery stores). African Americans in Los Angeles have sustained few long-term boycotts of Korean American businesses—but the absence of "routine" contention there goes hand in hand with the large-scale riots of 1992 and continuous acts of individual violence.In demonstrating how conflicts between these groups were intimately tied to their political surroundings, this book yields practical lessons for the future. City governments can do little to fight widening economic inequality in an increasingly diverse nation, Joyce writes. But officials and activists can restructure political institutions to provide the foundations for new multiracial coalitions.
Author : Charles Dwight Willard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Herald's History of Los Angeles City written by Charles Dwight Willard and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
