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Reinventing Los Angeles : nature and community in the global city
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Reinventing Los Angeles : nature and community in the global city

Author: Robert Gottlieb
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
Series: Urban and industrial environments.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Los Angeles, the place without a sense of place, famous for sprawl and overdevelopment and defined by its car-clogged freeways, might seem inhospitable to ideas about connecting with nature and community, but Gottlieb describes how imaginative social movements have coalesced to create a more liveable and sustainable city.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Robert Gottlieb
ISBN: 9780262072878 0262072874 9780262572439 0262572435
OCLC Number: 80916910
Notes: Errata slip inserted.
Description: viii, 430 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: The reinvention of Los Angeles: an introduction --
Nature in the city --
Community in the city --
Water for the city --
Re-envisioning the Los Angeles river --
Cars and freeways in the city --
The magic of Arroyofest --
City of migrations --
Social change across borders --
Globalization from below: a conclusion --
Notes --
Index.
Series Title: Urban and industrial environments.
Responsibility: Robert Gottlieb.
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Describes how water politics, cars and freeways, and immigration and globalization have shaped Los Angeles, and how innovative social movements are working to make a more livable and sustainable city.

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"[Gottlieb's] richly informative book is really about flowof resources, people, historyand about how we all need to put our hands into that urban stream as participants directing community, a word he Read more...

 
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