Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City

by Robert Gottlieb

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Describes how water politics, cars and freeways, and immigration and globalization have shaped Los Angeles, and how innovative social movements are working to make a more livable and sustainable city.

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Robert Gottlieb is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban Environmental Studies and director of the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College.

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Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City
Original publication date
2007-11
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Los Angeles, California, USA

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Nonfiction, Sociology, Science & Nature, Art & Design
DDC/MDS
307.1Society, government, & cultureSocial sciences, sociology & anthropologyCommunitiesPlanning & Development
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HT168 .L6 .G68Social sciencesCommunities. Classes. RacesCommunities. Classes. RacesUrban groups. The city. Urban sociologyCity planning
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