A Connected Metropolis: Los Angeles Elites and the Making of a Modern City, 1890-1965

by Maxwell Johnson

In A Connected Metropolis Maxwell Johnson describes Los Angeles's rise in the early twentieth century as catalyzed by a series of upper-class debates about the city's connections to the outside world. By focusing on specific moments in the city's development when tensions over Los Angeles's connections, or lack thereof, emerged, Johnson ties each movement to two or three contemporary figures who influenced the debates at hand. The elites' previous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496224329
• ISBN13: 9781496224323
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"