TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dear,M.J.
AU  - Dishman,J.Dallas
TI  - From Chicago to L.A: making sense of urban theory
SN  - 0761920943 (cloth)
AV  - HT384.U52 L673 2001
U1  - 307.76 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Thousand Oaks, Calif.
PB  - Sage Publications
KW  - Urbanization
KW  - California
KW  - Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
KW  - Local
KW  - Sociology urban
KW  - United States
KW  - Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Calif
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
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