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The Fragmented Metropolis

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Here with a new preface, a new foreword, and an updated bibliography is the definitive history of Los Angeles from its beginnings as an agricultural village of fewer than 2,000 people to its emerge...
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Here with a new preface, a new foreword, and an updated bibliography is the definitive history of Los Angeles from its beginnings as an agricultural village of fewer than 2,000 people to its emergence as a metropolis of more than 2 million in 1930—a city whose distinctive structure, character, and culture foreshadowed much of the development of urban America after World War II.
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Price: $31.95
Pages: 362
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Classics in Urban History
Publication Date: 09 June 1993
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520082304
Format: Paperback
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Robert M. Fogelson is Professor of Urban Studies and History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Introduction

Part One: Los Angeles, 1850-1930
1 From Pueblo to Town
2 Private Enterprise, Public Authority, and Urban
Expansion
3 The Rivalry between Los Angeles and San Diego
4 The Great Migration
5 Transportation, Water, and Real Estate
6 Commercial and Industrial Progress

Part Two: The Fragmented Metropolis
7 The Urban Landscape
8 The Failure of the Electric Railways
9 The Quest for Community
10 The Politics of Progressivism
11 The Municipal Ownership Movement
12 City and Regional Planning
Conclusion: "The Simple Life"

Bibliography
Notes
Index