num_pages: 330
description: Los Angeles is a city which has long thrived on the continual re-creation of own myth. In this extraordinary and original work, Norman Klein examines the process of memory erasure in LA. Using a provocative mixture of fact and fiction, the book takes us on an ‘anti-tour’ of downtown LA, examines life for Vietnamese immigrants in the City of Dreams, imagines Walter Benjamin as a Los Angeleno, and finally looks at the way information technology has recreated the city, turning cyberspace into the last suburb.
language: English
title: The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory
titlecomplete: The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory (Haymarket)
genres: History, Urban, Architecture, Urbanism, Cities, American History, Urban Studies, Urban Planning, Contemporary, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 148
publisher: Verso