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  • Land of Sunshine

    An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles

    Edited by William Deverell, Greg Hise ...
    Series Book 66 - History of the Urban Environment
    Most people equate Los Angeles with smog, sprawl, forty suburbs in search of a city-the great "what-not-to-do" of twentieth-century city building. But there's much more to LA's story than this shallow stereotype. History shows that Los Angeles was intensely, ubiquitously planned. The consequences of that planning-the environmental history of urbanism—is one place to turn for the more complex ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Los Angeles

    Edited by William Deverell, Greg Hise ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
    This Companion contains 25 original essays by writers and scholars who present an expert assessment of the best and most important work to date on the complex history of Los Angeles.The first Companion providing a historical survey of Los Angeles, incorporating critical, multi-disciplinary themes and innovative scholarshipFeatures essays from a range of disciplines, including history, political ... Read more

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    Nature and Community in the Global City

    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    Describes how water politics, cars and freeways, and immigration and globalization have shaped Los Angeles, and how innovative social movements are working to make a more livable and sustainable city.Los Angeles—the place without a sense of place, famous for sprawl and overdevelopment and defined by its car-clogged freeways—might seem inhospitable to ideas about connecting with nature and ... Read more

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  • Blessed Unrest

    How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World

    by Paul Hawken ...
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  • City of Quartz

    Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

    by Mike Davis ...
    Series series Essential Mike Davis
    This new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is “as central to the L.A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the seventies” (New Yorker).No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, “Los Angeles brings it all together.” To detractors, L.A. is a sunlit mortuary where “you can rot without feeling it.” To Mike Davis, the author of this ... Read more

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  • Ecology of Fear

    Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster

    by Mike Davis ...
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  • The Next Hundred Million

    America in 2050

    by Joel Kotkin ...
    Visionary social thinker Joel Kotkin looks ahead to America in 2050, revealing how the addition of one hundred million Americans by midcentury will transform how we all live, work, and prosper.In stark contrast to the rest of the world's advanced nations, the United States is growing at a record rate and, according to census projections, will be home to four hundred million Americans by 2050. This ... Read more

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  • Concrete and Clay

    Reworking Nature in New York City

    by Matthew Gandy ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
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  • Down to Earth

    Nature's Role in American History

    by Ted Steinberg ...
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  • The Art of Protest

    Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present

    by T. V. Reed ...
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  • Undermining

    A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West

    "A marvelous slim book [that] weaves . . . ideas, facts, images, and histories into a whole about . . . the ecology of the manmade world." —Rebecca SolnitIn Undermining, the award-winning author, art historian and social critic Lucy R. Lippard delivers "another trademark work" that combines text and full-color images to explore "the intersection of art, the environment, geography and politics" ( ... Read more

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  • The Art of Protest

    Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle

    by T.V. Reed ...
    Imagine the civil rights movement without freedom songs and the politics of women's movements without poetry. Or, more difficult yet, imagine an America unaffected by the cultural expressions and forms of the twentieth-century social movements that have shaped our nation. The first broad overview of social movements and the distinctive cultural forms that express and helped shape them, The Art of ... Read more

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