Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City

by Robert Gottlieb and Robert Gottlieb

Book Overview

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.

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 in Reinventing Los Angeles,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262572435
• ISBN13: 9780262572439
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 429 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.1" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher