Blue sky metropolis
Subtitle: the aerospace century in Southern California
By: edited by Peter J. Westwick
Contributors: Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West
Series: Western histories -- 4
Publisher: Published for Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West by University of California Press and Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780873282499
Subjects: Social conditions; Aerospace industries; Economic conditions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Photoessay: An Album of Early Southern California Aviation / Peter J. Westwick; title: section I: The Human Element; title: Lost in Aerospace / D.J. Waldie; title: Cold Warrior's Daughter / M.G. Lord; title: section II: The Work; title: Robert E. Gross and the Rise of Lockheed : The Creative Tension between Engineering and Finance / Sherman N. Mullin; title: Los Angeles Aircraft Workers and the Consolidation of Cold War Politics / Anita Seth; title: The Vanishing Act : Stealth Airplanes and Cold War Southern California / Mihir Pandya; title: section III: Culture; title: Spaces for the Space Age : William Pereira's Aerospace Modernism / Stuart W. Leslie; title: Aerospace and Hollywood : How Computer Animation Went from Space to Cineplex / Peter J. Westwick; title: From L5 to X Prize : California's Alternative Space Movement / W. Patrick McCray; title: section IV: Communities; title: Engineering a New Space : Chinese American Scientists and Engineers in Aerospace in Southern California / Zuoyue Wang; title: The Air Force and the Chumash : The "Curse of Slick-6" / Dwayne A. Day; title: section V: Geography; title: Aerospace in the Rest of California : The View from Silicon Valley / Glenn E. Bugos; title: Blueprinting the Regional City : The Urban and Environmental Legacies of the Air Industry in Southern California / Wade Graham; title: Afterword / Philip Scranton.