Redeveloped with public tax increments under the aegis of the powerful and largely unaccountable Community Redevelopment Agency
This reformist vision of public space – as the emollient of class struggle, if not the bedrock of the American polis – is now as obsolete as Keynesian nostrums of full employment
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Parochial power struggles between Downtown and the Westside have been overshadowed by new geopolitics and land economics, leaving the problem of who will rule Los Angeles in the year 2000 a surprisingly open question
They described the Culture Industry not merely as political economy, but as a specific spatiality that vitiated the classical proportions of European urbanity
Southern California Country adumbrates a full-fledged theory of the singular historical conditions – ranging from militarized class organization to ‘super-boosterism’ – that made possible the breakneck urbanization of Los Angeles
