The Freeways Of Los Angeles
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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.
Carmageddon Beauty Queens And The Hollywood Split How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles
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Author : Paul Haddad
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-10-05
Carmageddon Beauty Queens And The Hollywood Split How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles written by Paul Haddad and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-05 with History categories.
Carmageddon, Beauty Queens, and the Hollywood Split: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles 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." Carmageddon, Beauty Queens, and the Hollywood Split 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.
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.
L A Freeway
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Author : David Brodsly
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1983-01-01
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 1983-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Los Angeles Before The Freeways 1850 1950
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Author : Arnold Hylen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Los Angeles Before The Freeways 1850 1950 written by Arnold Hylen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with History categories.
Developing An Effective Freeway Traffic Management System For Los Angeles
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Author : Bill Schaefer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Developing An Effective Freeway Traffic Management System For Los Angeles written by Bill Schaefer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Electronic traffic controls categories.
Planned electronic traffic control measures for Los Angeles freeways: early detection and rapid removal of incidents, electronic surveillance, service for stranded motorists, ramp control, central decision making, and effective real-time information for the motorist.
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.
Los Angeles Before The Freeways
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Author : Arthur Hylen
language : en
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Release Date : 2024-07-23
Los Angeles Before The Freeways written by Arthur Hylen and has been published by Gibbs Smith this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-23 with Architecture categories.
Gorgeous photographs of lost Los Angeles, paired with historical and architectural insights. Los Angeles Before the Freeways: Images of An Era 1850-1950 gives a lush, visual tour of a Los Angeles that no longer exists—one of elegant office buildings and stately mansions that were razed in the name of “progress” to build the city’s famous freeways. Featuring stunning black-and-white photography from Arnold Hylen that captures a lost era, the book contains an original essay by the photographer that provides historical background and context for the time period. This new edition contains additional, never-before-seen photographs from Hylen and newly unearthed information from historian Nathan Marsak on these lost architectural treasures.
The Freeway Evolution 1965
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Author : California. Division of Highways
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
The Freeway Evolution 1965 written by California. Division of Highways and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Express highways categories.
Hidden History Of Transportation In Los Angeles
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Author : Charles P. Hobbs
language : en
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Release Date : 2014-11-04
Hidden History Of Transportation In Los Angeles written by Charles P. Hobbs and has been published by History Press Library Editions 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.