num_pages: 362
description: Here with a new preface, a new foreword, and an updated bibliography is the definitive history of Los Angeles from its beginnings as an agricultural village of fewer than 2,000 people to its emergence as a metropolis of more than 2 million in 1930―a city whose distinctive structure, character, and culture foreshadowed much of the development of urban America after World War II.
language: English
title: The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930 (Volume 3)
titlecomplete: The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930 (Volume 3) (Classics in Urban History)
genres: Nonfiction, History, American History
ratings_count: 72
publisher: University of California Press