Magnetic Los Angeles

Magnetic Los Angeles

Author: Greg Hise

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1999-08-20

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780801862557

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Suburban development is often considered synonymous with enhanced personal mobility, single-family housing, and life cycle homogeneity. According to this view, individual suburbs are residence-only enclaves, isolated commuter-sheds for a managerial and mercantile elite. Magnetic Los Angeles challenges this common vision of the expanding, twentieth-century city as the sprawling product of dispersion without planning, lacking any discernable order.