Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE vii
4. CONTRIBUTORS xi
5. ONE Introduction to Los Angeles: City and Region 1
6. TWO The First American City 22
7. THREE Hetero-Architecture and the L.A. School 47
8. FOUR In the City, Time Becomes Visible: Intentionality and Urbanism in Los Angeles, 1781-1991 76
9. FIVE The Evolution of Transportation Policy in Los Angeles: Images of Past Policies and Future Prospects 106
10. SIX How Eden Lost Its Garden: A Political History of the Los Angeles Landscape 160
11. SEVEN Bounding and Binding Metropolitan Space: The Ambiguous Politics of Nature in Los Angeles 186
12. EIGHT L.A. as Design Product: How Art Works in a Regional Economy 225
13. NINE High-Technology Industrial Development in the San Fernando Valley and Ventura County: Observations on Economic Growth and the Evolution of Urban Form 276
14. TEN Income and Racial Inequality in Los Angeles 311
15. ELEVEN A City Called Heaven: Black Enchantment and Despair in Los Angeles 336
16. TWELVE Latino Los Angeles: Reframing Boundaries/Borders 365
17. THIRTEEN From Global to Local: The Rise of Homelessness in Los Angeles during the 1980s 390
18. FOURTEEN Los Angeles, 1965-1992 From Crisis-Generated Restructuring to Restructuring-Generated Crisis 426
19. ILLUSTRATION CREDITS 463
20. INDEX 465