More comprehensive than any other book on this topic, Los Angeles and the Automobile places the evolution of Los Angeles within the context of American political and urban history.
Los Angeles and the Automobile The Making of the Modern City
About the Book
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
2. The Progressive Response
3. The Democratic Impulse and the Automobile
4. The Power of Consensus
5. The Union Station Controversy
6. A Lack of Consensus
7. Reshaping the Modem City
8. The Road to Autopia
9. Epilogue
Notes
Index
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