ISBN:
9780820356211
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (271 pages)
Series Statement:
Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser. v.45
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
979.494053
Keywords:
Political activists-California-Los Angeles
;
Political activists-California-Los Angeles
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION Setting the Stage: Los Angeles and Urban Archaeology -- PART 1. Don Parson: From Urban Idealism to Reaction-Five Essays -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 A Mecca for the Unfortunate: Housing and Progressive Reform in Los Angeles -- CHAPTER 2 "Houses for the Rich Were Also for the Birds": Designing a Better World -- CHAPTER 3 "A New Deal Democrat Plus": The Progressive Judicial Career of Stanley Moffatt -- CHAPTER 4 Breeding Grounds of Communism: The Gwinn Amendment in Los Angeles' Public Housing -- CHAPTER 5 Housing Is a Labor Process: Housing Policy and Housework -- PART 2. Hunting Elmer Fudd: Don Parson's Journey through Los Angeles -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 6 "Making a Better World": My Intersections with Don Parson, by Tom Sitton -- CHAPTER 7 History Repeating . . . , by Sue Ruddick -- CHAPTER 8 Of Bunnies and Barricades, by Steven Flusty, with Don Parson -- PART 3. Alternative Futures: Don Parson Revisited -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 9 Ben Margolis and Gregory Ain: A Meeting of Radical Minds, by Greg Goldin -- CHAPTER 10 Power Lines: Boundaries of Erasure and Expansion in Los Angeles, by Dana Cuff -- CHAPTER 11 "Downtown Is Not the Heart of the City": Mike Davis in Conversation with Jennifer Wolch and Dana Cuff -- CHAPTER 12 Public Housing in Los Angeles: "Adding Space: The First and Final Frontier?," by Jacqueline Leavitt -- CHAPTER 13 The City and Spatial Justice, by Edward W. Soja -- CHAPTER 14 Race, Class, and Political Activism: Black, Chicana/o, and Japanese American Leftists in Southern California, 1968-1978, by Laura Pulido -- On Activist Futures in a Dark Age-A Postscript, by Roger Keil -- Don Parson, a Select Bibliography, compiled by B. Uyeda and Judy Branfman -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H.
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