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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Poetry Los Angeles: Reading the Essential Poems of the City

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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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The Herald's History of Los Angeles City 9780598280435

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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles 9781844674862

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles is a 1990 book by Mike Davis examining how contemporary Los Angeles

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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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