making sense of urban theory Dear, M. J. (Michael J.) Dishman, J. Dallas. text bibliography cau Thousand Oaks, Calif Sage Publications c2001 2001 monographic eng

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xi, 444 p. ill. (some col.) 26 cm. Pt. 1. Los Angeles and the "L.A. school". The resistable rise of the L.A. school / Michael J. Dear and Steven Flusty ; Demographic dynamism in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and Washington, DC / Dowell Myers ; Los Angeles as postmodern urbanism / Michael J. Dear and Steven Flusty -- Photo essay. Imagining postmodern urbanism / Michael J. Dear -- Pt. 2. City of industry. Industry and the landscapes of social reform / Greg Hise ; Los Angeles as a developmental city-state / Steven P. Erie -- Industrial urbanism in late-twentieth-century southern California / Allen J. Scott -- Pt. 3. Reconsidering community. From immigrants in the city, to immigrant city / Jerome Straughan and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo ; The globalization of urban homelessness / Madeleine R. Stoner ; "Play groups" no longer: urban street gangs in the Los Angeles region / Cheryl L. Maxson and Malcolm W. Klein ; Religion in Los Angeles: patterns of spiritual practice in a postmodern city / Donald E. Miller ; Ecologies of cyberspace: gay communities on the Internet / J. Dallas Dishman -- Pt. 4. Revisioning urban theory. Representing "Los Angeles": media, space, and place / Darnell M. Hunt ; Returning to ecology: an ecosystem approach to understanding the city / Ashwani Vasishth and David C. Sloane ; Urban nature and the nature of urbanism / Jennifer Wolch, Stephanie Pincetl, and Laura Pulido ; Saber y conocer: the metropolis of urban inquiry / Philip J. Ethington and Martin Meeker ; The L.A. school: a personal introduction / Michael J. Dear. edited by Michael J. Dear with J. Dallas Dishman. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us-ca n-us--- Urbanization California Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Sociology urban United States Urbanization United States Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Calif Social conditions HT384.U52 L673 2001 307.76 F9311 0761920943 (cloth) 0761920951 (pbk.) 2001000421 DLC 010122 20160527191400.0 257451