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LA URBANISM BOOKS

MY BLUE HEAVEN
Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965

becky nicolaides
[university of chicago press, 2002]
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A WORLD OF ITS OWN
Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970

matt garcia
[university of north carolina press, 2002]
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LA NOW: VOLUME TWO
Shaping a New Vision for Downtown Los Angeles, Seven Proposals

thom mayne, richard koshalek, dana hutt, editors
[university of california press, 2002]

LA NOW: VOLUME ONE
thom mayne, richard koshalek, dana hutt, editors
[university of california press, 2002]

LOOKING FOR LOS ANGELES
Architecture, Film, Photography and the Urban Landscape

charles salas, michael roth, editors
[the getty center for education in the arts, 2002]

FRITZ B. BURNS
and the Development of Los Angeles

james thomas keane
[historical society of southern california, 2001]

METROPOLIS IN THE MAKING
Los Angeles in the 1920s

bill deverell, tom sitton, editors
[university of california press, 2001]

THE PROVISIONAL CITY
Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism

dana cuff
[the mit press, 2001]

WILLIAM MULHOLLAND AND THE RISE OF LOS ANGELES
catherine mulholland
[university of california press, 2000]

EDEN BY DESIGN
The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Regional Plan for the Los Angeles Region

greg hise, bill deverell, editors
[university of california press, 2000]

LANDSCAPES OF DESIRE
Anglo Mythologies of Los Angeles

william mcclung
[university of california press, 2000]

GLITER STUCCO AND DUMPSTER DIVING
Reflections on Building Production in the Vernacular City

john chase
[verso books, 2000]

THE DRIVE-IN, THE SUPERMARKET, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF COMMERCIAL SPACE IN LOS ANGELES, 1914-1941
richard longstreth
[the mit press, 1999]

THE LOS ANGELES RIVER
Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth

blake gumprecht
[johns hopkins university press, 1999]

MAGNETIC LOS ANGELES
Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis

greg hise
[johns hopkins university press, 1999]

THE CITY
Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century

allen scott, ed soja, editors
[university of california press, 1998]
reviewed by john kaliski for harvard design magazine

ECOLOGY OF FEAR
Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster

mike davis
[metropolitan books, 1998]
reviewed by david harvey for harvard design magazine

CITY CENTER TO REGIONAL MALL
Architecture, the Automobile, and Retailing in Los Angeles, 1920-1950

richard longstreth
[the mit press, 1997]

THE RELUCTANT METROPOLIS
The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles

william fulton
[solamar research group, 1997]

THE HISTORY OF FORGETTING
Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory

norman klien
[verso books, 1997]

POLICING SPACE
Territoriality and the Los Angeles Police Department

steve herbert
[university of minnesota press, 1997]

THE WATER SEEKERS
remi nadeau
[crest publishers, 4th edition, 1997]

HOLY LAND
A Suburban Memoir

d j waldie
[st martins press, 1996]

RETHINKING LOS ANGELES
Metropolis and Region

micheal dear, greg hise, editors
[sage publications, 1996]

RE: AMERICAN DREAM
Six Urban Housing Prototypes for Los Angeles

[princeton architectural press, 1995]

POSTSUBURBAN CALIFORNIA
The Transformation of Orange County Since World War II

rob kling, spencer olin, mark poster, editors
[university of california press, 1995]

CITY OF QUARTZ
Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

mike davis
[verso books, 1990]

MATERIAL DREAMS
Southern California Through the 1920's

kevin starr
[oxford university press, 1990]

LOS ANGELES BOULEVARD
Eight X-Rays of the Public Body

douglas suisman
[los angeles forum for architecture and urban design, 1989]

LOS ANGELES AND THE AUTOMOBILE
The Making of a Modern City

scott bottles
[university of california press, 1987]

COURTYARD HOUSING IN LOS ANGELES
A Typological Analysis

stefanos polyzoides, roger sherwood, james tice
[university of california press, 1982]

WATER AND POWER
The Conflict Over Los Angeles' Water Supply in the Owens Valley

william kahrl
[university of california press, 1982]

THE LA FREEWAY
An Appreciative Essay

david brodsly
[university of california press, 1981]

LOS ANGELES
Architecture of the Four Ecologies

reyner banham
[the penguin press, 1971; reprinted university of california press, 2001]
reviewed by robert fishman for harvard design magazine

THE FRAGMENTED METROPOLIS
Los Angeles, 1850-1930

robert fogelson
[harvard university press, 1967]

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An LA Bibliography
compiled by richard longstreth


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