An Assessment of Fifty Years of Redevelopment in Los Angeles
Author : Jefferson Eugene Grigsby (III)
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Page : 122 pages
File Size : 39,75 MB
Release : 1998
Category : City planning
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Author : Jefferson Eugene Grigsby (III)
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 39,75 MB
Release : 1998
Category : City planning
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Author : Jefferson Eugene Grigsby (III)
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 19,96 MB
Release : 1998
Category : City planning
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Author : Manuel Pastor
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 28,73 MB
Release : 2000
Category : City planning
ISBN : 9781452904412
Author : Scott L. Cummings
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 29,71 MB
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 0190215933
An Equal Place is a monumental study of the role of lawyers in the movement to challenge economic inequality in one of America's most unequal cities: Los Angeles. Breaking with the traditional focus on national civil rights history, the book turns to the stories of contemporary lawyers, on the front lines and behind the scenes, who use law to reshape the meaning of low-wage work in the local economy. Covering a transformative period of L.A. history, from the 1992 riots to the 2008 recession, Scott Cummings presents an unflinching account of five pivotal campaigns in which lawyers ally with local movements to challenge the abuses of garment sweatshops, the criminalization of day labor, the gentrification of downtown retail, the incursion of Wal-Mart groceries, and the misclassification of port truck drivers. Through these campaigns, lawyers and activists define the city as a space for redefining work in vital industries transformed by deindustrialization, outsourcing, and immigration. Organizing arises outside of traditional labor law, powered by community-labor and racial justice groups using levers of local government to ultimately change the nature of labor law itself. Cummings shows that sophisticated legal strategy engaging yet extending beyond courts, in which lawyers are equal partners in social movements is an indispensable part of the effort to make L.A. a more equal place. Challenging accounts of lawyers' negative impact on movements, Cummings argues that the L.A. campaigns have achieved meaningful reform, while strengthening the position of workers in local politics, through legal innovation. Dissecting the reasons for failure alongside the conditions for success, this groundbreaking book illuminates the crucial role of lawyers in forging a new model of city-building for the twenty-first century.
Author : John H. M. Laslett
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 23,78 MB
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 081650086X
On May 8, 1959, the evening news shocked Los Angeles residents, who saw LA County sheriffs carrying a Mexican American woman from her home in Chavez Ravine not far from downtown. Immediately afterward, the house was bulldozed to the ground. This violent act was the last step in the forced eviction of 3,500 families from the unique hilltop barrio that in 1962 became the home of the Los Angeles Dodgers. John H. M. Laslett offers a new interpretation of the Chavez Ravine tragedy, paying special attention to the early history of the barrio, the reform of Los Angeles's destructive urban renewal policies, and the influence of the evictions on the collective memory of the Mexican American community. In addition to examining the political decisions made by power brokers at city hall, Shameful Victory argues that the tragedy exerted a much greater influence on the history of the Los Angeles civil rights movement than has hitherto been appreciated. The author also sheds fresh light on how the community grew, on the experience of individual home owners who were evicted from the barrio, and on the influence that the event had on the development of recent Chicano/a popular music, drama, and literature.
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Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,81 MB
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ISBN : 1621969061
Author : Instituto Argentino del Petróleo
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Page : 2 pages
File Size : 17,89 MB
Release : 1974
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Author : James Berry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 33,76 MB
Release : 2002-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1135805652
This book considers the interactive relationships between the operation of planning system and the role and performance of property development and real estate markets in 14 Pacific Rim Cities drawn from both Eastern and Western perspectives.
Author : Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles
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Page : 20 pages
File Size : 35,91 MB
Release : 1971*
Category : Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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Page : 4 pages
File Size : 15,53 MB
Release : 1931
Category : Los Angeles (Calif.)
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