The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930 / Edition 1

by Robert M. Fogelson, Robert Fishman

Overview

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 people to its emergence as a metropolis of more than 2 million in 1930—a city whose distinctive structure, character, and culture foreshadowed much of the development of urban America after World War II.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520082304
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	06/09/1993
Series:	Classics in Urban History , #3
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	362
Sales rank:	166,176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Robert M. Fogelson is Professor of Urban Studies and History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part One: Los Angeles, 1850-1930
1 From Pueblo to Town
2 Private Enterprise, Public Authority, and Urban
Expansion
3 The Rivalry between Los Angeles and San Diego
4 The Great Migration
5 Transportation, Water, and Real Estate
6 Commercial and Industrial Progress

Part Two: The Fragmented Metropolis
7 The Urban Landscape
8 The Failure of the Electric Railways
9 The Quest for Community
10 The Politics of Progressivism
11 The Municipal Ownership Movement
12 City and Regional Planning
Conclusion: "The Simple Life"

Bibliography
Notes
Index