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Author_Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod
california
california dream
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city history
city planning
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freeway
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gardens
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history
jazz age
los angeles
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parking ban
parkway
southern california
traffic
traffic control
united states
urban sprawl
urban studies
utopia
Product details
- ISBN 9780520252851
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jun 2009
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Program in Cultural Studies at Occidental College.
