Up Against the Sprawl: Public Policy and the Making of Southern California

by Jennifer R. Wolch

Book Overview

Los Angeles's experience in managing urban growth and change

America's first truly twenty-first-century metropolis, Los Angeles is often depicted as diverse, fragmented, polarized, and ungovernable, a city without a unifying geographic center or civic culture. The sprawling evolution of the city and its infamous problems--traffic, pollution, growing inequality--are usually attributed to a Wild West version of capitalism--the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816642982
• ISBN13: 9780816642984
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 401 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.9"