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

Wolch, Jennifer

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0816642982 ISBN 13 : 9780816642984

Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2004

Synopsis

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 triumph of an unregulated free market over comprehensive urban planning. But market choices and lack of planning did not set the terrain of Southern California: Los Angeles has been profoundly shaped by a wide range of local, state, and federal public policies and programs.

Up Against the Sprawl details how governmental policies and public agencies have dictated many aspects of the region's growth: infrastructure, transportation, housing, immigration, finances, civic and regional administration, the environment. The authors also argue that since public policy set the landscape, it can help forge the future. They explore countermovements by progressive activists to use innovative policies--from smart growth initiatives to the actions of living wage advocates--for greater social, economic, and environmental justice.

This book is a major contribution to our understanding of past and present urban processes and policy, and highlights practical lessons for urban and regional policy makers and activists in Los Angeles and beyond.

Contributors: Carolyn B. Aldana, California State U, San Bernadino; Carol S. Armstrong; Michael Dear, U of Southern California; Gary Dymski, U of California Riverside; Steven P. Erie, USC; Gregory Freeman; William Fulton; Elizabeth Gearin, USC; Genevieve Giuliano, USC; Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, U of Massachusetts, Boston; Enrico A. Marcelli; Myra A. Marks, Loyola Marymount U; Juliet Musso, USC; Stephanie Pincetl, USC; Laura Pulido; Christine M. Ryan; John P. Wilson.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Peter Dreier is Clapp Distinguished Professor and director of the Urban and Environmental Policy Program at Occidental College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Minnesota Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0816642982
• ISBN 13: 9780816642984
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
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• Personne responsable: non disponible