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Author:

Sitton, Tom, 1949-

Title:

Los Angeles transformed : Fletcher Bowron's urban reform revival, 1938-1953 / Tom Sitton.

Publisher:

University of New Mexico Press,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

xvi, 256 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Bowron, Fletcher,--1887-1968.
Mayors--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Biography.
City planning--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
Urban renewal--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
Urban policy--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Politics and government--20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social conditions--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-246) and index.

Contents:

1. Reform in Los Angeles: from progressivism to the 1938 recall / Los Angeles politics, 1900-1938 -- 2. Reformers in office / The Bowron administration takes off, 1938-1941 -- 3. Responding to world war / Reform as a casualty in World War II -- 4. Restoration & realignments / Surge of the left and Bowron's response, 1945-1946 -- 5. Retrenchment / Postwar issues and the Bowron administration, 1946-1948 -- 6. Recall redux / 1949 election and the 1950 recall attempt -- 7. Revival & reaction / Cold War municipal politics, 1950-1951 -- 8. Repeal & rejection / Public housing and the 1953 election -- 9. Realignment & retrospection / Fletcher Bowron's Los Angeles.

ISBN:

9780826335272 (alk. paper)
0826335276 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)57004063

LCCN:

2004026472

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

E7OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GLAX641 -- Marshalltown Community College Library (Marshalltown)