Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis (Creating the North American Landscape)

Suburban development is often considered synonymous with enhanced personal mobility, single-family housing, and life cycle homogeneity. According to this view, individual suburbs are residence-only enclaves, isolated commuter-sheds for a managerial and mercantile elite. Magnetic Los Angeles challenges this common vision of the expanding, twentieth-century city as the sprawling product of dispersion without planning, lacking any discernable order.

• | Author: Greg Hise
• | Publisher: JHUP
• | Publication Date: August 20, 1999
• | Number of Pages: 314 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0801862558
• | ISBN-13: 9780801862557