Creating Connections Through Radical Practices

2019 ◽  
pp. 35-64
Author(s):  
David M. Struthers
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Racial Diversity ◽  
Community Formation ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Political Left ◽  
The City

This chapter charts the growth of the political left in Los Angeles from the late nineteenth century into the twentieth century. It expands upon the preceding chapter’s examination of community development in Los Angeles by analyzing the strands of leftist organizations active in the city within the context of broader community formation patterns. The spatial practices of trade unions, political parties, and radical community groups affected how they engaged racial diversity or practiced exclusionary forms of solidarity. The chapter then considers the community-building function of media in leftist movements, the radical press, and a global print culture that extended solidarities out from Los Angeles to locations around the world. Analysis of radical newspapers focuses on financing, distribution, multilingual content, and consumption.

Whose Culture, Whose Neighborhood? Fostering and Resisting Neighborhood Change in the Multiethnic Enclave

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brady Collins
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Neighborhood Change ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Cultural Economy ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Ethnic Enclaves ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Ethnographic Methods ◽  
The City

As multiculturalism has become a valued aspect of the city, ethnic enclaves have taken on new economic power in the cultural economy. However, as Western cities become increasingly diverse, multiple ethnic communities often overlap in shared urban spaces. Employing ethnographic methods, this article examines Wilshire Center, Los Angeles, to better understand how multiethnic communities perceive of and experience the culture of their community and how different actors foster or resist neighborhood change. In doing so, this research complicates our understandings of gentrification dynamics in multiethnic areas, and highlights important considerations for community development practitioners seeking to plan for multiple publics.

Migration and Urbanism in Glasgow: The Spatial Impact of South Asian Communities

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-54
Author(s):  
Adel M. Remali ◽  
Ashraf M. Salama ◽  
Florian Wiedmann
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
City Region ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Walking Tour ◽  
Group Identities ◽  
Post War ◽  
The City

South Asian communities have lived in Scotland since the late nineteenth century, experiencing a substantial growth in the post-war period. This paper contributes a new understanding of the spatial practices of South Asian communities in the city of Glasgow based on statistics and surveys. The authors aim to address the gap in literature by analysing patterns of location and trends across the city region over the census period of 2011. The study furthermore integrates a walking tour assessment generated by checklists and a recording scheme. The attributes of cultural identity, economic diversity and socio-spatial practice of six urban spaces within three selected neighbourhoods are examined. Two urban spaces were chosen from each neighbourhood to interpret the diversity of land uses along each case study and the social interaction as well as economic activities of South Asian residents. This suggests that the idea of a coherent 'Asian community' obscures differences and generates assumptions regarding residential behaviour and 'in-group' identities. The research, therefore, provides an enhanced understanding of how these distinctive communities interact with a built environment, which has not been designed to cater certain spatial practices.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Jessica M. Kim
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
American West ◽  
Global City ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
City Regions ◽  
Urban Elites ◽  
Informal Empire ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The City ◽  
The U.S

This introduction outlines how, following the Civil War, Los Angeles city boosters and capitalists built what would become the American West’s most important city by tying their region to the exploitation of Mexican labor and Mexican natural resources. They followed a template often used by urban boosters, particularly in cities in the American West, who turned to the surrounding countryside with investment schemes to fuel personal fortunes and municipal growth. At the heart of these plans were cities or urban cores. Urban elites considered the corpus that surrounded them as their hinterland or periphery. In Los Angeles, these plans for growth also assumed imperial and transnational dimensions. Urban promoters argued for “taking in” territories in neighboring Mexico. In foregrounding international urban development in the American West and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, this chapter argues for understanding Los Angeles as a city-empire. Similar to what geographers and urbanists describe as “global city-regions” in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Los Angeles in the late nineteenth century functioned as a node of concentrated wealth and power in the borderlands economy and operated at an alternative scale to the nation-state. Ultimately, the city would function as the vanguard of an American commercial or “informal” empire in Mexico.

Utopian Visions in United States Urbanism

Moreana ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 42 (Number 164) (4) ◽  
pp. 157-186
Author(s):  
James M. McCutcheon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
New World ◽  
New Technology ◽  
World's Fair ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Central Park ◽  
Garden Cities ◽  
Oneida Community ◽  
The City

America’s appeal to Utopian visionaries is best illustrated by the Oneida Community, and by Etienne Cabet’s experiment (Moreana 31/215 f and 43/71 f). A Messianic spirit was a determinant in the Puritans’ crossing the Atlantic. The Edenic appeal of the vast lands in a New World to migrants in a crowded Europe is obvious. This article documents the ambition of urbanists to preserve that rural quality after the mushrooming of towns: the largest proved exemplary in bringing the country into the city. New York’s Central Park was emulated by the open spaces on the grounds of the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893. The garden-cities surrounding London also provided inspiration, as did the avenues by which Georges Haussmann made Paris into a tourist mecca, and Pierre L’Enfant’s designs for the nation’s capital. The author concentrates on two growing cities of the twentieth century, Los Angeles and Honolulu. His detailed analysis shows politicians often slow to implement the bold and costly plans of designers whose ambition was to use the new technology in order to vie with the splendor of the natural sites and create the “City Beautiful.” Some titles in the bibliography show the hopes of those dreamers to have been tempered by fears of “supersize” or similar drawbacks.

Los Angeles in the 1930sThe WPA Guide to the City of Angels

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federal Writers Project of the Works ◽  
David Kipen
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
The City

Review: Urban Latino Cultures: La Vida Latina en LA by Gustavo Leclerc, Raúl Villa, and Michael J. Dear (eds.)

1999 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-128
Author(s):  
Catherine S. Ramirez
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
History Of ◽  
Crime Wave ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
The City ◽  
History Of Los Angeles

Throughout the twentieth century (and now the twenty-first), the specter of a Latina/o past, present, and future has haunted the myth of Los Angeles as a sunny, bucolic paradise. At the same time it has loomed behind narratives of the city as a dystopic, urban nightmare. In the 1940s Carey McWilliams pointed to the fabrication of a “Spanish fantasy heritage” that made Los Angeles the bygone home of fair señoritas, genteel caballeros and benevolent mission padres. Meanwhile, the dominant Angeleno press invented a “zoot” (read Mexican-American) crime wave. Unlike the aristocratic, European Californias/os of lore, the Mexican/American “gangsters” of the 1940s were described as racial mongrels. What's more, the newspapers explicitly identified them as the sons and daughters of immigrants-thus eliding any link they may have had to the Californias/os of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries or to the history of Los Angeles in general.

Városutópiák környezetpszichológiai és szimbolikai elemzése

2003 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edit Lippai ◽  
Andrea Dúll
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Jersey City ◽  
The City

A városépítészet egész történetét végigkísérik a „Jó város - jó társadalom” elképzelések, vagyis az utópiák. A jelen tanulmányban néhány, a szépirodalomban megjelent ideális, tökéletes, kívánt városelképzelést, vagyis eutópiát elemzünk környezetpszichológiai és szimbolikai szempontból. A városok tényleges téri-társadalmi szerkezetének és folyamatainak, valamint ezek mentális-érzelmi leképezodésének vizsgálata egyidos a környezetpszichológiával. A kutatást Kevin Lynch (1960) úttöro vizsgálatai alapozták meg, amelyeket „A város képe” (The Image of the City) címu klasszikus könyvében publikált. Lynch három amerikai város - Boston, Los Angeles és Jersey City - lakosságának reprezentatív mintáin végzett kutatásában a lakók mentális térképeit vizsgálta. Kutatásának eredményei szerint az emberek fejében él egy kép a városukról (image of the city), ami a városlakó orientációs bázisa és egyúttal esztétikai-formai struktúra. Összehasonlítva a három amerikai városról alkotott mentális térképeket, Lynch rájött, hogy bizonyos környezeti elemek általános térkép-jellegzetességnek tekinthetok: utak (paths), határok (edges), lakónegyedek (districts), csomópontok (nodes), iránypontok (landmarks). Az utópiák három csoportra oszthatók: idobeli (múlt- és a jövobeli), térbeli (négy világtáj irányában, illetve magasban vagy mélyben levo) és abszolút (képzeletbeli) utópiákra. Az általunk elemzett idobeli utópiák: Atlantisz, Mennyei Jeruzsálem, Minas Tirith és Diaspar, térbeli utópiák: Nekeresd, Napváros, Eldorado és abszolút utópia: Elefántcsonttorony. Ezeket a városutópiákat ebben a munkában kulturális városképeknek tekintettük, és ily módon elemeztük fizikai, észlelheto elemeiket. Vizsgálatunk során arra az érdekes felfedezésre bukkantunk - természetesen Lynch munkájáról nem is tudva -, hogy az utópiák megalkotói pontosan az általuk empirikusan feltárt fenti szempontok alapján írták le információikat az általuk tökéletesnek tartott városról. Elemzésünk eredménye szerint leírhatók a vágyott város ismérvei általában: 1. széles, jó alapanyagból készült sugárutak, 2. jól elkülönített határok és szélek, amelyek védenek, s tagolják a város szerkezetét és 3. a városon belül tágas tereket, kerületeket fognak közre, valamint 4. a csomópontokban a vizuális tájékozódást segíto jellegzetes és látványos tereptárgy van. A városok lakóit többek között közös szimbólumrendszer és a kommunikáció adott, megszokott módja kapcsolja egymáshoz. Az utópikus városok szimbolikus „kognitív térképeinek” funkciója - a valós városokéhoz hasonlóan - az lehet, hogy keretet és biztonságos kapaszkodót nyújtanak egy ideális világban, megteremtik az arról való közös kommunikáció lehetoségét, és ily módon kifejezik, létrehozzák és fenntartják az emberek vágyott tökéletes helykötodését és helyidentitását.

Wastewater treatment and risk assessment in ocean outfall evaluations

1998 ◽  
Vol 38 (10) ◽  
pp. 309-316
Author(s):  
William F. Garber
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Environmental Risks ◽  
Advanced Treatment ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Ocean Outfall ◽  
Treatment And Disposal ◽  
The City

Past evaluations of the success of wastewater treatment and submarine outfall placement and operation have considered only a limited number of parameters affecting the marine and onshore environments. Important questions regarding the best allocation of available funds have not been adequately addressed. The relative contamination of the sea from airborne and landwash contaminants has not been considered. Neither has the increased air pollution deriving from the energy required for advanced treatment. Similarly, regular epidemiological studies to evaluate actual changes in morbidity arising from drastic changes in treatment and disposal have not been made prior to very large committments of funds. Most importantly, little attention has been given to the relative ranking of all environmental risks within a catchment area. The net result is that, when all factors are considered, the very large expenditures and increased energy use for sanitary wastewater treatment and outfall disposal will have a net negative effect on the physical and societal environment. The City of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Metropolitan area can be used to illustrate this probability.

The New Age for Sewer Planning at the City of Los Angeles

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (12) ◽  
pp. 1353-1359
Author(s):  
Mario Dimzon ◽  
Fernando Gonzalez ◽  
Ali Poosti ◽  
Adel Hagekhalil ◽  
Erick Heath ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
New Age ◽  
The City
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