num_pages: 314
description: Magnetic Los Angeles challenges the widely held view of the expanding twentieth-century city as the sprawling product of dispersion without planning and lacking any discernable order. Using Los Angeles as a case study, Greg Hise argues that the twentieth-century metropolitan region is the product of conscious planning-by policy makers, industrialists, design professionals, community builders, and homebuyers-in direct response to political and economic conditions of the 1920s and the Depression, the defense emergency, and the immediate postwar years.
language: English
title: Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis
titlecomplete: Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis (Creating the North American Landscape)
genres: Cities
ratings_count: 27
series: Creating the North American Landscape
publisher: JHUP