Toward autopia
Subtitle: envisioning the modern metropolis in jazz age California
By: Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520252844; 9780520252851
Subjects: Urbanization -- California -- Los Angeles Metropolitan Area -- History -- 20th century; City planning -- California -- Los Angeles Metropolitan Area -- History -- 20th century; Regional planning -- California -- Los Angeles Metropolitan Area -- History -- 20th century; Sociology, Urban -- California -- Los Angeles Metropolitan Area -- History -- 20th century; Los Angeles Metropolitan Area (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Looking toward autopia; title: Prologue: A city that does not move; title: Los Angeles is not the city it could have been; title: Paradise misplaced; title: Imagining the metropolis in a modern age; title: Modern Los Angeles; title: Crossroads : metropolis in crisis; title: Gardens and cities; title: Epilogue: A city that moves; title: Conclusion: To dream dreams and see visions.