The Los Angeles coast as a public place. From: The Geographical Review | Date: October 1, 2005| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2005 American Geographical Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In the public-space discourse Los Angeles is usually portrayed as more "anti-city" than city. Its landscape is overrun by houses, "private-public" squares and plazas, theme parks, shopping malls, and so on and lacks inclusive public places. Yet this discourse has essentially disdained to contemplate a major public space that contradicts its general thesis: the Los Angeles coast. The coast is meaningful public place in two specific senses. First, it symbolizes Los Angeles as a whole and therefore provides a basis for regional public identity. Second, Angelinos themselves take the coast ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

	IN-YOUR-FACE, DARKLING OUTLOOK ON LOS ANGELES CAN OVERWHELM.(Lifestyle)(Review) ; ...Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination...not only that Southern California has always been...theory at the Southern California Institute of...Fellowship. He sees Los Angeles through Marx...prose style (Southern California is ``Walden ...
	The point of Los Angeles. (1994 earthquake aftermath) (Editorial) ; ...have warned Los Angeles that the gods...see page 41). Southern California--complete with...precious patch. Southern California, runs the argument...not just that Los Angeles has failed...it has lost, southern California has everything...its people. ...
	Los Angeles Residents Greet News of Impending Media Merger Tentatively.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News) ; ...back to sunny Los Angeles when the Bay...industry that gave Los Angeles its glamour...development of the Southern California landscape and...dynasty ended and Los Angeles' reputation...California's Southern California Quarterly. I...Otis arrived in ...
	History on the surface: Pop art and postwar urbanism in 1960s Los Angeles.(Pop LA.:Art and the City in the 1960s)(Book review) ; ...and history of Southern California superficially...confronting Pop art in Los Angeles, where the style...addressing the ways Southern California artists of the...noir accounts of Los Angeles. Looking at the...private spaces of Los Angeles and help to ...
	America learns to love LA. (Los Angeles) ; ...its surfers, southern California has en one wave...so fast that Los Angeles hopes to ride...headquarters in the Los Angeles basin, and 95...jobs created in southern California in the 1980s...cut growth in southern California to well below...all jobs in the ...
	Drug chains like L.A. climate.(Market focus: Los Angeles)(Industry Overview) ; ...in greater Los Angeles, making them...market. Across Southern California, Rite Aid...retailers say Los Angeles is the place...Moving into southern California keeps with...in Greater Los Angeles and 130 in Southern California, plans to...
	Los Angeles faces a dangerous quake debt. (earthquake deficit in Southern California) ; ...conclusion is that Los Angeles is likely to...researcher with the Southern California Earthquake Center in Los Angeles. Two other new...assessments for southern California have focused...earthquake deficit in Los Angeles. In fact, the...across much of ...
	Water and Los Angeles.(Point Counter Point)(California) ; ...and the Los Angeles Harbor Project...Also we, Southern California, face the...export to Southern California. We need...the water Los Angeles receives...missed, but Los Angeles and Southern California must be vigilant...
	Sprawl Hits the Wall in Los Angeles: Briefing to Reveal Challenges of Growth Showing Why L.A. Region Has to Act Now ; ...Who: USC's Southern California Studies Center...of growth in Los Angeles press briefing...University of Southern California Davidson Executive...Figueroa St., Los Angeles, Calif. When...California's Southern California Studies Center...residents of ...
	Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, Mayor Villaraigosa and Southern California Business and Community Leaders Urge Federal Investment in America's Economic Gateway ; ...Commerce, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio...leaders from Southern California joined together...Canter, five Los Angeles City Councilmembers...more than 20 Southern California business...ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Southern California is ...

For more facts and information, see all results