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Title: The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles by William B. Fulton ISBN: 0-8018-6506-9 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Pub. Date: August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (9 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Fulton's Folly
Comment: Bill Fulton is often lionized by planning "professionals" and students for his writing in this book but the truth is that his foray into the application reality of his theory has Ventura on the ropes. Fulton is the architect of several local no-growth initiatives such as Save Our Agricultural Resources (SOAR) as well as spearheading a housing development-blocking effort a couple of years ago for Ventura hillsides. What has since happened as any college freshman taking Econ 101 would understand, is that the supply of housing has constricted as demand increased and resulted in the skyrocketing price of local housing. Fulton did nothing after pushing these no-growth initiatives to stoke the fires of development that is required to prevent this housing supply constipation.
Fulton has now gotten himself elected to the Ventura City Council and it has become easy to see his political agenda that before has been hidden and masquerading as thoughtful intellect. This guy is no responsible academic or planning God but merely another no-growth advocate pushing a political agenda. Don't waste your time reading his stuff unless you have nothing else with which to stock your water closet area.
Rating: 4
Summary: The joke in Los Angeles
Comment: The joke in Los Angeles is 'I've never been to downtown Los Angeles'. This is book that tells all about the decentralization of LA. Unlike most cities in America, Los Angeles' decentralization is a product of the explained 'growth machine'. One of the most unique cities in America and possibly one of the most depressing. I would have given this book 5 stars but i award 5 stars to inspirational books. The politics of Los Angeles makes me want to curl into a ball and shove myself into a dark corner (no worries though, it's perpetually sunny here).
Rating: 5
Summary: So that's how it really is...
Comment: This book is a must read for anyone willing to expose themselves to the stories behind the stories of Los Angeles. The stories reveal the apathetic and self-centered nature of some Los Angeles citizens (who will never really admit they are from "Los Angeles"), and sets the stage for an entire change of mindset among Los Angelenos. This mindset is one that takes notice of the community, and the larger metropolis that communities make up. For a graduate city planning student as I, these stories help shape some basic values of mine regarding the nature of cities and communities. I strongly recommend this book.
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Title: The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930 (Classics in Urban History, Vol 3) by Robert M. Fogelson ISBN: 0520082303 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis ISBN: 0679738061 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 March, 1992 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920's (Americans & the California Dream) by Kevin Starr ISBN: 019507260X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1991 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: A Rage for Justice: The Passion and Politics of Phillip Burton by John Jacobs ISBN: 0520204115 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis (Creating the North American Landscape) by Greg Hise ISBN: 0801862558 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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