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Inventing Autopia: Dreams And Visions Of The Modern Metropolis In Jazz Age Los Angeles, Jeremiah Axelrod
Inventing Autopia: Dreams And Visions Of The Modern Metropolis In Jazz Age Los Angeles, Jeremiah Axelrod
Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod
In 1920, as its population began to explode, Los Angeles was a largely pastoral city of bungalows and palm trees. Thirty years later, choked with smog and traffic, the city had become synonymous with urban sprawl and unplanned growth. Yet Los Angeles was anything but unplanned, as Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod reveals in this compelling, visually oriented history of the metropolis during its formative years. In a deft mix of cultural and intellectual history that brilliantly illuminates the profound relationship between imagination and place, Inventing Autopia shows how the clash of irreconcilable utopian visions and dreams resulted in the invention of …
‘Keep The “L” Out Of Los Angeles’: Race, Discourse, And Urban Modernity In 1920s Southern California, Jeremiah Axelrod
‘Keep The “L” Out Of Los Angeles’: Race, Discourse, And Urban Modernity In 1920s Southern California, Jeremiah Axelrod
Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod
In the spring of 1926 the voters of Los Angeles were asked to decide whether to accept a modern rapid transit system for their metropolis. The referendum campaign, a watershed moment in American urban history, forced citizens to choose whether their rapidly growing city should develop into a centralized conurbation of skyscrapers linked by an extensive transit infrastructure, like New York and Chicago, or become a metropolis dominated by low-density development. Crucially, the campaign—charged with vivid rhetoric and metaphor, mobilized primarily by local newspapers—ultimately turned on Angelenos' conceptions of race and class and on their notions of what cosmopolitan urbanism …
Los Angeles, Jeremiah Axelrod
The Noir War: American Narratives Of World War Ii And Its Aftermath, Jeremiah Axelrod
The Noir War: American Narratives Of World War Ii And Its Aftermath, Jeremiah Axelrod
Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod
Exploring topics such as poetry, politics, and cultures of war, this collection of 16 essays tells alternative, contradictory, and complicated stories about World War II, demonstrating that the United States was not always a champion of liberty and justice as some would like the general public to believe.
Reading Frederick Douglass Through Foucault’S Panoptic Lens: A Proposal For Teaching Close Reading., Jeremiah Axelrod, Rise Axelrod
Reading Frederick Douglass Through Foucault’S Panoptic Lens: A Proposal For Teaching Close Reading., Jeremiah Axelrod, Rise Axelrod
Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod
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‘Los Angeles Is Not The City It Could Have Been:’ Cultural Representation, Traffic, And Urban Modernity In Jazz Age America., Jeremiah Axelrod
‘Los Angeles Is Not The City It Could Have Been:’ Cultural Representation, Traffic, And Urban Modernity In Jazz Age America., Jeremiah Axelrod
Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod
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