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Inventing Autopia
Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod
其他書名
Dreams and Visions of the Modern Metropolis in Jazz Age Los Angeles
出版Univ of California Press, 2009-06-02
主題History / GeneralHistory / United States / 20th CenturyHistory / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)History / WorldPolitical Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban DevelopmentPolitical Science / Public Policy / Regional PlanningSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / Urban
ISBN05202528459780520252844
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=y1CSDQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In 1920, as its population began to explode, Los Angeles was a largely pastoral city of bungalows and palm trees. Thirty years later, choked with smog and traffic, the city had become synonymous with urban sprawl and unplanned growth. Yet Los Angeles was anything but unplanned, as Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod reveals in this compelling, visually oriented history of the metropolis during its formative years. In a deft mix of cultural and intellectual history that brilliantly illuminates the profound relationship between imagination and place, Inventing Autopia shows how the clash of irreconcilable utopian visions and dreams resulted in the invention of an unforeseen new form of urbanism—sprawling, illegible, fractured—that would reshape not only Southern California but much of the nation in the years to come.