"Flat-out one of the most interesting books I've read in years. To say that a book about California might rank with Kevin Starr's "Americans and the California Dream" or Mike Davis' "City of Quartz" is dangerously high praise, but I think Axelrod's book may someday be in that league."--John Ganim, University of California, Riverside ""Inventing Autopia "thoughtfully weaves together planning and policy history with cultural history to great effect. It is sure to change our understanding of the ways in which Los Angeles not ...
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"Flat-out one of the most interesting books I've read in years. To say that a book about California might rank with Kevin Starr's "Americans and the California Dream" or Mike Davis' "City of Quartz" is dangerously high praise, but I think Axelrod's book may someday be in that league."--John Ganim, University of California, Riverside ""Inventing Autopia "thoughtfully weaves together planning and policy history with cultural history to great effect. It is sure to change our understanding of the ways in which Los Angeles not only grew and developed but envisioned itself in the era."--William Deverell, author of "Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past"
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As New. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Softcover 2009, 1st edition. Text and covers in as new condition. Binding firm. Pages unmarked and clean. (401 pages)
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Good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 416 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.
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Berkeley. 2009. May 2009. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780520252851. 416 pages. paperback. keywords: History Automobiles Cars Los Angeles California America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-In 1920, as its population began to explode, Los Angeles was a largely pastoral city of bungalows and palm trees. Thirty years later, choked with smog and traffic, the city had become synonymous with urban sprawl and unplanned growth. Yet Los Angeles was anything but unplanned, as Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod reveals in this compelling, visually oriented history of the metropolis during its formative years. In a deft mix of cultural and intellectual history that brilliantly illuminates the profound relationship between imagination and place, INVENTING AUTOPIA shows how the clash of irreconcilable utopian visions and dreams resulted in the invention of an unforeseen new form of urbanism-sprawling, illegible, fractured-that would reshape not only Southern California but much of the nation in the years to come. inventory #37369.
