The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930Here with a new preface, a new foreword, and an updated bibliography is the definitive history of Los Angeles from its beginnings as an agricultural village of fewer than 2,000 people to its emergence as a metropolis of more than 2 million in 1930—a city whose distinctive structure, character, and culture foreshadowed much of the development of urban America after World War II. |
Contents
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Private Enterprise Public Authority and Urban Expansion | 26 |
The Rivalry between Los Angeles and San Diego | 45 |
The Great Migration | 65 |
Transportation Water and Real Estate | 87 |
Commercial and Industrial Progress | 110 |
The Fragmented Metropolis | 139 |
The Quest for Community | 188 |
The Politics of Progressivism | 207 |
The Municipal Ownership Movement | 231 |
City and Regional Planning | 249 |
The Simple Life | 275 |
Bibliography | 281 |
Notes | 299 |
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Page xxxvii - We have drunken our water for money ; our wood is sold unto us. Our necks are under persecution : we labour, and have no rest.
Page xxxviii - Instead of revolutions and insurrections, there will be internal tranquillity; instead of a fickle and vacillating policy, there will be a firm and stable government, administering justice with impartiality, and punishing crime with the strong arm of power. The arts and sciences will flourish, and the labor of the agriculturist, guided by the lamp of learning, will stimulate the earth to the most bountiful production.
Page xxxviii - Thus circumstanced, we find ourselves suddenly threatened by hordes of Yankee emigrants, who have already begun to flock into our country, and whose progress we cannot arrest. Already have the wagons of that perfidious people scaled the almost inaccessible summits of the Sierra Nevada, crossed the entire continent, and penetrated the fruitful valley of the Sacramento. What that astonishing people will next undertake I cannot say; but in whatever enterprise they embark they will be sure to prove successful.
Page xxxviii - They are cultivating farms, establishing vineyards, erecting mills, sawing up lumber, building workshops, and doing a thousand other things which seem natural to them, but which Californians neglect or despise.