For the first time, Anton Wagner's groundbreaking 1935 book that launched the study of Los
Angeles as an urban metropolis is available in English. No book on the emergence of Los …

An illustrated history of the American city's evolution from sparsely populated village to
regional metropolis. American Urban Form—the spaces, places, and boundaries that define …

A review of The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at trie End of the Twen-tieth Century.
Edited by Allen J. Scott and Edward W. Soja.(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of …

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 …

Los Angeles has grown from a scattered collection of towns and villages to one of the largest
megacities in the world. In the process, it has inspired controversy among critics and …

Los Angeles was founded in 1781 as one of the two original Spanish pueblos in California.
At the time of statehood in 1851, Los Angeles began to reconsider its" cow town" condition …

In 1957, the section of the building code wh tures in Los Angeles to a limit height of 150
modified. With this modification, high-ris dicative of the prosperity of the 1950's, have …

A Los Angeles Times Bestseller" William Fulton is the Raymond Chandler of Los Angeles
real estate."—Kevin Starr, California State Librarian and author of Material Dreams: Los …

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 …

Between 1965 and 1992, the metropolis of Los Angeles experienced a dramatic
transformation. Often at the forefront of new urbanization trends ever since its rapid growth in …