Making Time: Essays on the Nature of Los Angeles

A master of combining science, history, and his own experiences into a riveting read, William L. Fox will make you look at L.A.—and any urban landscape —in an entirely new way.

William L. Fox is a longtime explorer of cognition and landscape—the notion of what makes a space into a place. In this book he turns his gaze on Los Angeles, a city dominated by the movie industry, which specializes in bringing places from far away in time into what we experience as here and now—making time, in essen...