Los Angeles and the Automobile: The Making of the Modern City 9780520911130

Bohemian Los Angeles: and the Making of Modern Politics 9780520941694

Bohemian Los Angeles brings to life a vibrant and all-but forgotten milieu of artists, leftists, and gay men and women w

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The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles 9781452966014, 2020058508

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City of Dignity: Christianity, Liberalism, and the Making of Global Los Angeles 9780226823775

City of Dignity illuminates how liberal Protestants quietly, yet indelibly, shaped the progressive ethics of postwar Los

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A Connected Metropolis: Los Angeles Elites and the Making of a Modern City, 1890–1965 1496224329, 9781496224323

In A Connected Metropolis Maxwell Johnson describes Los Angeles’s rise in the early twentieth century as catalyzed by a

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Railtown: The Fight for the Los Angeles Metro Rail and the Future of the City 9780520957206

The familiar image of Los Angeles as a metropolis built for the automobile is crumbling. Traffic, air pollution, and spr

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City Center to Regional Mall: Architecture, the Automobile, and Retailing in Los Angeles, 1920-1950 [1 ed.] 9780262122009, 0262122006

Winner of the 1997 Spiro Kostof Award given by the Society of Architectural Historians., Winner of the 1997 Lewis Mumfor

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Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s 9780520935525

Los Angeles came of age in the 1920s. The great boom of that decade gave shape to the L.A. of today: its vast suburban s

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Making Music in Los Angeles: Transforming the Popular 9780520933835

In this fascinating social history of music in Los Angeles from the 1880s to 1940, Catherine Parsons Smith ventures into

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Secrets of Los Angeles: A Guidebook to the City of Angels in the 1920s 1568822138, 9781568822136

Chaosium Stock #23111 Secrets of Los Angeles is an informative resource for keepers should the trail of a mystery lead

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Los Angeles in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to the City of Angels 9780520948860

Los Angeles in the 1930s returns to print an invaluable document of Depression-era Los Angeles, illuminating a pivotal m

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