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Los Angeles and the Automobile: The Making of the Modern City

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Los Angeles and the Automobile: The Making of the Modern City

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More comprehensive than any other book on this topic, Los Angeles and the Automobile places the evolution of Los Angeles within the context of American political and urban history.

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ISBN-13:	9780520073951
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	05/28/1991
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	315
Product dimensions:	(w) x (h) x 0.80(d)

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Scott L. Bottles received his MBA in Finance and his Ph.D. in American History from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is Vice President and Manager of the Los Angeles Office of the Wells Fargo Real Estate Group.

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As the first great auto-age metropolis, Los Angeles deserves study to understand the public choices that were made and the pattern that other cities followed. Unlike some books, like Howard Preston's Automobile Age Atlanta ( LJ 8/79), Bottles's does not focus on social consequences. Instead, he deals with public policy, particularly as it was influenced by public attitudes toward mass transit alternatives. For Bottles automobiles came to dominate Los Angeles because the public believed cars met their personal and economic needs better than street cars or trains. He rejects the idea of a conspiracy of car-related industries or the mere technological superiority of the automobile as reasons for the outcome. A well-argued but controversial scholarly defense of the automobile-age city. Charles K. Piehl, Associate Dean, Arts & Humanities, Mankato State Univ., Minn.

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