{"product_id":"planning-los-angeles-9781611900040","title":"Planning Los Angeles","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLos Angeles isn’t planned; it just happens. Right? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot so fast! Despite the city’s reputation for spontaneous evolution, a deliberate planning process shapes the way Los Angeles looks and lives. Editor David C. Sloane, a planning professor at the University of Southern California, has enlisted 30 essayists for a lively, richly illustrated view of this vibrant metropolis. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlanning Los Angeles\u003c\/em\u003e launches a new series from APA Planners Press. Each year Planners Press will bring out a new study on a major American city. Natives, newcomers, and out-of-towners will get insiders’ views of today’s hot-button issues and a sneak peek at the city to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles presents a planning challenge of global\/local importance. These newly minted, masterful essays honestly face the losses and gains of planning in a City of Angels that belongs to all of us. -- Kevin Starr, University of Southern California\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Introduction: Multi-plicities\/Multiple-cities \u003cstrong\u003ePart 1. Challenging the Myth of an Unplanned Los Angeles \u003c\/strong\u003e2. The Concept for the Los Angeles General Plan: 1970 3. 1994 Northridge and the San Fernando Valley 4. 2000 Charter Reform and Neighborhood Councils 5. Everyday Los Angeles 6. Urban Planning Magnet School; Ban on Supergraphics \u003cstrong\u003ePart 2. Metropolis of Dispersed Diversity \u003c\/strong\u003e7. The Ambiguous Legacies of the 1992 Riots 8. Minority-Majority Suburbs and Change in the San Gabriel Valley 9. LA Stories: Who We Are and Where We Live 10. James Rojas: Interactive Planning; LA Urban Rangers \u003cstrong\u003ePart 3. One-Hundred Years of Land Use Regulation \u003c\/strong\u003e11. Almost New Urbanism: The Vision, Realization \u0026amp; Legacy of Playa Vista 12. Glendale Downtown Specific Plan, 2006 13. Planning as a Tool for Battling the Fast Food Invasion 14. FOLAR; Public Matters: Market Make-Over \u003cstrong\u003ePart 4. Back to the Future in Transportation Planning \u003c\/strong\u003e15. Federated Regionalism 16. Measure R: Ballot Box Planning for Transit 17. CicLAvia: Translating Ephemeral Intervention into Systemic Change 18. Orange Line Express; Port Plan for Lower Emissions \u003cstrong\u003ePart 5. Green Spaces in the Auto Metropolis \u003c\/strong\u003e19. The Afterlife of a Master Plan 20. 2007 Urban Design Studio 21. 1995 SOAR Ventura 22. Unpaving Paradise: The Green Visions Plan for Southern California 23. Spiraling Orchard; Grand Civic Park \u003cstrong\u003ePart 6. Economic Development \u003c\/strong\u003e24. Los Angeles’s Adaptive Reuse Ordinance Injects New Life in Downtown 25. 1993 CItyWalk, Invented Streets, Changing Shopping Trends 26. Community Benefits, Negotiations, and (In)Justice 27. From Barbie to Banksy: The Cultural Economy in Los Angeles 28. 2009 21st Century Budget Crises: Public Finance 29. KAOS Art Space; Fallen Fruit\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50578256003415,"sku":"9781611900040","price":34.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781611900040.jpg?v=1746098572","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/planning-los-angeles-9781611900040","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}