The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City
 

The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City

by Robert Gottlieb, Regina Freer, Mark Vallianatos, Peter Dreier

While most historians, journalists, and filmmakers have focused on Los Angeles as a bastion of corporate greed, business boosterism, political corruption, cheap labor, exploited immigrants, and unregulated sprawl, The Next Los Angeles tells a different story: that of the reformers and radicals who have struggled for alternative visions of social and economic justice. In a new preface, the... (read more)

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Sucks but cures insomnia
  • Rated 1 stars
Reviewed by an Amazon user, 2008-10-05
This book is poorly written and an absolute chore to read. On any given page, a tiny bit of useful information is buried under a pile of extravagant vocabulary, which is generally confusing and completely pointless but I'm sure serves some author's inflated ego quite well.

Detestable that somebody finds this appropriate as a textbook.
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