Metropolis in the Making - Los Angeles in the 1920s

"Informed by the rich new literature on contemporary Los Angeles, Metropolis in the Making takes giant strides in illuminating the history of the present. Looking back to the future, this rich collection of historical essays fixes on the key formative moments of America's first decentralized industrial metropolis. Not only would Carey McWilliams be pleased, but so too will be every contemporary urbanist."—Edward W. Soja, author of Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions and co-editor of The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century

List of contents

Contributors: Clark Davis, Mike Davis, William Deverell, Michael E. Engh, S.J., Douglas Flamming, Philip Goff, Greg Hise, Doug Monroy, Becky M. Nicolaides, Laurie Pintar, Nancy Quam-Wickham, Steven J. Ross, Matthew W. Roth, Tom Sitton, David Charles Sloane, Jules Tygiel

About the author

Tom Sitton is Curator of History at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and author of John Randolph Haynes: California Progressivism (1992) and The Haynes Foundation and Urban Reform Philanthropy in Los Angeles (1999).

Summary

Los Angeles came of age in the 1920s. This collection of essays explores the making of the Los Angeles metropolis during this remarkable decade. It examines the city's racial, political, cultural, and industrial dynamics.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Sitton, Tom Deverell Sitton
• Assisted by: William Deverell (Editor), William F. Deverell (Editor), Tom Sitton (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2001
• EAN: 9780520226272
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22627-2
• No. of pages: 383
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Prose: non-fiction, California, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Social and cultural history, Biography and non-fiction prose, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)