My Los Angeles : from urban restructuring to regional urbanization / Edward W. Soja.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

At once informative and entertaining, inspiring and challenging, My Los Angeles provides a deep understanding of urban development and change over the past forty years in Los Angeles and other city regions of the world. Once the least dense American metropolis, Los Angeles is now the country's densest urbanized area and one of the most culturally heterogeneous cities in the world. Soja takes us through this urban metamorphosis, analyzing urban restructuring, deindustrialization and reindustrialization, the globalization of capital and labor, and the formation of an information-intensive New Ec.

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- When it first came together in Los Angeles -- Taking Los Angeles apart -- Inside exopolis : views of Orange County -- Comparing Los Angeles -- On the postmetropolitan transition -- A look beyond Los Angeles -- Regional urbanization and the end of the metropolis era -- Seeking spatial justice in Los Angeles -- Occupy Los Angeles: a very contemporary conclusion -- Appendix 1: Source texts by the author -- Appendix 2: Complementary video sources -- Index.

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