Titre et auteur:

Metropolis in the making : Los Angeles in the 1920s / edited by Tom Sitton and William Deverell.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.

Description:

xii, 371 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Metropolis in the making : Los Angeles in the 1920s / Jules Tygiel -- Industry and imaginative geographies / Greg Hise -- Mulholland Highway and the engineering culture of Los Angeles in the 1920s / Matthew W. Roth -- The quest for independence : workers in the suburbs / Becky M. Nicolaides -- Sunshine and the open shop : Ford and Darwin in 1920s Los Angeles / Mike Davis -- "Another world" : work, home, and autonomy in blue-collar suburbs / Nancy Quam-Wickham -- The Star of Ethiopia and the NAACP : pageantry, politics, and the Los Angeles African American community / Douglas Flamming -- Making Mexico in Los Angeles / Douglas Monroy -- The view from Spring Street : white-collar men in the city of angels / Clark Davis -- "Practically every religion being represented" / Michael E. Engh -- Fighting like the devil in the city of angels : the rise of fundamentalist Charles E. Fuller / Philip Goff -- How Hollywood became Hollywood : money, politics, and movies / Steven J. Ross -- My America or yours? Americanization and the battle for the youth of Los Angeles / William Deverell -- Did the ruling class rule at city hall in 1920s Los Angeles? / Tom Sitton -- Behind the scenes : Bronco Billy and the realities of work in open shop Hollywood / Laurie Pintar -- Selling eternity in 1920s Los Angeles / David Charles Sloane.

Ressources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0520226267 (alk. paper)
9780520226265 (alk. paper)
0520226275 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780520226272 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Sujet:

City planning California Los Angeles History 20th century.
Nineteen twenties.
Années vingt (Vingtième siècle)
City planning
Economic history
Social conditions
Stadtplanung
Stadtentwicklung
Stadsplanning.
Stedelijk beleid.
Los Angeles (Calif.) History 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Social conditions 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Economic conditions 20th century.
California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, Calif.
Los Angeles (Calif.) History.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Social conditions.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Economic conditions.
Los Angeles <Calif.>

Classification/genre:

History
Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance) United States 21st century.

Vedettes secondaires:

Sitton, Tom, 1949-
Deverell, William, 1962-

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 218136
Cote: NA9127.L6 M4 2001
Statut: Disponible