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

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

Editorial Reviews Scientific American "Relates the history of the river with graceful thoroughness." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, D. J. Waldie Hise makes a compelling case for L.A. as a product of middle-class dispersal from disquieting ethnic centers, the Progressive era's proselytism of the social hygiene in suburbs, 50 years of federal housing policy based on home ownership and segregation and the 20 years before World War II, during which small houses like mine were "concept marketed" to potential working-class buyers. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Magnetic Los Angeles : Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis (Creating the North American Landscape)

Magnetic Los Angeles : Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis (Creating the North American Landscape),Greg Hise,The Johns Hopkins University Press,0801862558,Architecture,General,History: American,Planning,Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.,Public Policy - Regional Planning,Sociology - Urban,Art / General

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