Magnetic Los Angeles
Subtitle: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis (Creating the North American Landscape)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: July 27, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780801862557
Subjects: City & town planning - architectural aspects; Social history; Urban & municipal planning; Urban communities; Sociology - Urban; Planning; Architecture; History: American; California; Public Policy - Regional Planning; Art / General; Los Angeles; General; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.
First sentence: On Saturday, November 17, 1928, Los Angeles planning luminaries Gordon G. Whitnall, Charles H. Cheney, and Hugh R. Pomeroy addressed a crowd assembled for the dedication of the first completely improved civic park ever granted to that city (fig. 1.1).