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