L A Freeway
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L A Freeway
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Author : David Brodsly
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-12-22
L A Freeway written by David Brodsly and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-22 with Business & Economics categories.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
Freewaytopia How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles
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Author : Paul Haddad
language : en
Publisher: Santa Monica Press
Release Date : 2021-10-05
Freewaytopia How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles written by Paul Haddad and has been published by Santa Monica Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-05 with History categories.
Freewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles explores how social, economic, political, and cultural demands created the web of expressways whose very form—futuristic, majestic, and progressive—perfectly exemplifies the City of Angels. From the Arroyo Seco, which began construction during the Great Depression, to the Simi Valley and Century Freeways, which were completed in 1993, author Paul Haddad provides an entertaining and engaging history of the 527 miles of road that comprise the Los Angeles freeway system. Each of Los Angeles’s twelve freeways receives its own chapter, and these are supplemented by “Off-Ramps”—sidebars that dish out pithy factoids about Botts’ Dots, SigAlerts, and all matter of freeway lexicon, such as why Southern Californians are the only people in the country who place the word “the” in front of their interstates, as in “the 5,” or “the 101.” Freewaytopia also explores those routes that never saw the light of day. Imagine superhighways burrowing through Laurel Canyon, tunneling under the Hollywood Sign, or spanning the waters of Santa Monica Bay. With a few more legislative strokes of the pen, you wouldn’t have to imagine them—they’d already exist. Haddad notably gives voice to those individuals whose lives were inextricably connected—for better or worse—to the city’s freeways: The hundreds of thousands of mostly minority and lower-class residents who protested against their displacement as a result of eminent domain. Women engineers who excelled in a man’s field. Elected officials who helped further freeways . . . or stop them dead in their tracks. And he pays tribute to the corps of civic and state highway employees whose collective vision, expertise, and dedication created not just the most famous freeway network in the world, but feats of engineering that, at their best, achieve architectural poetry. Finally, let’s not forget the beauty queens—no freeway in Los Angeles ever opened without their royal presence.
La Freeway
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
La Freeway written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with categories.
Freeway
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Author : Jorge Enrique Lage
language : en
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Release Date : 2022-10-04
Freeway written by Jorge Enrique Lage and has been published by Deep Vellum Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-04 with Fiction categories.
An award-winning cyberpunk novel set in mid-21st century Cuba, Freeway: La Movie crosses the absurdity of American pop culture with the deep, fragmented unease of Cuban-US relations. A novel-in-stories set in mid-twenty-first century dystopian Havana, Freeway narrates the adventure of two misfits wandering the construction site of a colossal freeway-to-be — a mysterious feat of engineering that slices through Havana, designed to connect the US and Cuba. The two embark on a futile journey, overlaid with the elusive filming of a documentary about the freeway construction. Both film quality and interior monologues drift aimlessly, haunted by Cuban history and US pop culture. Freeway: La Movie is a satirical novel that attempts to reconcile what might be hopelessly irreconcilable: the body and the machine; analog and digital; post-industrial overdevelopment and post-socialist underdevelopment; Cuba and the US; reality and fiction; the plasticity of personal identity and rigid categories such as gender, class, and nationality. Through the clash of utopian promises and dystopian realities, Freeway reveals the unease of contemporary culture from the US to Cuba.
The Folklore Of The Freeway
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Author : Eric Avila
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2014-05-01
The Folklore Of The Freeway written by Eric Avila and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-01 with Architecture categories.
When the interstate highway program connected America’s cities, it also divided them, cutting through and destroying countless communities. Affluent and predominantly white residents fought back in a much heralded “freeway revolt,” saving such historic neighborhoods as Greenwich Village and New Orleans’s French Quarter. This book tells of the other revolt, a movement of creative opposition, commemoration, and preservation staged on behalf of the mostly minority urban neighborhoods that lacked the political and economic power to resist the onslaught of highway construction. Within the context of the larger historical forces of the 1960s and 1970s, Eric Avila maps the creative strategies devised by urban communities to document and protest the damage that highways wrought. The works of Chicanas and other women of color—from the commemorative poetry of Patricia Preciado Martin and Lorna Dee Cervantes to the fiction of Helena Maria Viramontes to the underpass murals of Judy Baca—expose highway construction as not only a racist but also a sexist enterprise. In colorful paintings, East Los Angeles artists such as David Botello, Carlos Almaraz, and Frank Romero satirize, criticize, and aestheticize the structure of the freeway. Local artists paint murals on the concrete piers of a highway interchange in San Diego’s Chicano Park. The Rondo Days Festival in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the Black Archives, History, and Research Foundation in the Overtown neighborhood of Miami preserve and celebrate the memories of historic African American communities lost to the freeway. Bringing such efforts to the fore in the story of the freeway revolt, The Folklore of the Freeway moves beyond a simplistic narrative of victimization. Losers, perhaps, in their fight against the freeway, the diverse communities at the center of the book nonetheless generate powerful cultural forces that shape our understanding of the urban landscape and influence the shifting priorities of contemporary urban policy.
Route 30 Improvements Route 210 To Route 215 Los Angeles County San Bernardino County
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
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The Freeways Of Los Angeles
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Author : David I. Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2010-03-27
The Freeways Of Los Angeles written by David I. Thompson and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-27 with Travel categories.
A detailed mini-guidebook about Los Angeles freeways and select boulevards.
Measuring Concentrations Of Selected Air Pollutants Inside California Vehicles
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Measuring Concentrations Of Selected Air Pollutants Inside California Vehicles written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Air categories.
Poetry Los Angeles
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Author : Laurence Goldstein
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2014-03-12
Poetry Los Angeles written by Laurence Goldstein and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
A look at the poetry of one of America’s most populous and fascinating cities, with poems spanning from 1942 to 2012
Hidden History Of Transportation In Los Angeles
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Author : Charles P. Hobbs
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2014-11-04
Hidden History Of Transportation In Los Angeles written by Charles P. Hobbs and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-04 with History categories.
Los Angeles transportation's epic scale--its iconic freeways, Union Station, Los Angeles International Airport and the giant ports of its shores--has obscured many offbeat transit stories of moxie and eccentricity. Triumphs such as the Vincent Thomas Bridge and Mac Barnes's Ground Link buspool have existed alongside such flops as the Santa Monica Freeway Diamond Lane and the Oxnard-Los Angeles Caltrain commuter rail. The City of Angels lacks a propeller-driven monorail and a freeway in the paved bed of the Los Angeles River, but not for a lack of public promoters. Horace Dobbins built the elevated California Cycleway in Pasadena, and Mike Kadletz deployed the Pink Buses for Orange County kids hitchhiking to the beach. Join Charles P. Hobbs as he recalls these and other lost episodes of LA-area transportation lore.