The power of place
Subtitle: urban landscapes as public history
By: Dolores Hayden.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Public history -- California -- Los Angeles; Public spaces -- California -- Los Angeles; Minorities -- California -- Los Angeles -- History; Women -- California -- Los Angeles -- History; Historic sites -- Interpretive programs -- California -- Los Angeles; Cities and towns -- Interpretive programs -- California -- Los Angeles; Public art -- California -- Los Angeles; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History
Description: Based on her extensive experience in the urban communities of Los Angeles, historian and architect Dolores Hayden proposes new perspectives on gender, race, and ethnicity to broaden the practice of public history and public art, enlarge urban preservation, and reorient the writing of urban history to spatial struggles.

In the first part of The Power of Place, Hayden outlines the elements of a social history of urban space to connect people's lives and livelihoods to the urban landscape as it changes over time. She then explores how communities and professionals can tap the power of historic urban landscapes to nurture public memory.

The second part documents a decade of research and practice by The Power of Place, a nonprofit organization Hayden founded in downtown Los Angeles. Through public meetings, walking tours, artist's books, and permanent public sculpture, as well as architectural preservation, teams of historians, designers, planners, and artists worked together to understand, preserve, and commemorate urban landscape history as African American, Latino, and Asian American families have experienced it.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-286) and index.