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Inventing Paradise

- The Power Brokers Who Created, Bought, and Sold the Dream of Los Angeles
Af: Paul Haddad Engelsk Hardback

Inventing Paradise

- The Power Brokers Who Created, Bought, and Sold the Dream of Los Angeles
Af: Paul Haddad Engelsk Hardback
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Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles traces the improbable rise of Los Angeles through the prism of six visionaries who had outsize influence on the city’s growth: Phineas Banning, Harrison Gray Otis, Henry Huntington, Harry Chandler, William Mulholland, and Moses Sherman.

In the late 1870s, Los Angeles was a violent, dusty, 29-square-mile pueblo with a few thousand souls, largely unchanged since its founding in 1781. By 1930, its size had swelled to within 96% of its current 468 square miles, housing a staggering 1.2 million people. In just 50 years, L.A. had joined the ranks of other world-class cities.

In the tradition of Mike Davis’s classic work City of Quartz, Paul Haddad (Freewaytopia and 10,000 Steps a Day in L.A.) debunks many myths about the City of Angels with a wildly entertaining narrative that sheds new light on the fascinating birth of modern Los Angeles. Power came from a select few, whose triumphs, scandals, and correspondence are well documented in Inventing Paradise, along with other little-known facts about L.A. history, including:

  • How Los Angeles Times chief Harry Chandler pushed eugenics and endorsed “white spots”
  • Henry Huntington’s and Moses Sherman’s trolley systems and the extortion-type practices that led to their expansion
  • When Los Angeles was so desperate for water, it hired a miracle worker who promised rain
  • How L.A.’s power elite peddled the lie that the Owens River used to flow into Los Angeles and rightfully belonged to the city
  • When Los Angeles annexed a city in which monkeys cast votes
  • How Venice, California, was not the first Venice, California
  • William Mulholland’s game-changing construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, which raised the city’s population ceiling from 250,000 to 2.5 million

    Haddad also covers the heavy costs that came with creating paradise in such a short period of time, including car dependency, environmental problems, and deep-seated inequities between wealthy white Angelenos and people of color due to racist policies. All have left an imprint on present-day Los Angeles.

    Los Angeles is a city that should not exist—and yet it does. Through Inventing Paradise, Haddad shows readers that Los Angeles is not a paradise found, but a paradise that was willed into existence, owing to the collective vision of these six Gilded Era-born tycoons.

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    Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles traces the improbable rise of Los Angeles through the prism of six visionaries who had outsize influence on the city’s growth: Phineas Banning, Harrison Gray Otis, Henry Huntington, Harry Chandler, William Mulholland, and Moses Sherman.

    In the late 1870s, Los Angeles was a violent, dusty, 29-square-mile pueblo with a few thousand souls, largely unchanged since its founding in 1781. By 1930, its size had swelled to within 96% of its current 468 square miles, housing a staggering 1.2 million people. In just 50 years, L.A. had joined the ranks of other world-class cities.

    In the tradition of Mike Davis’s classic work City of Quartz, Paul Haddad (Freewaytopia and 10,000 Steps a Day in L.A.) debunks many myths about the City of Angels with a wildly entertaining narrative that sheds new light on the fascinating birth of modern Los Angeles. Power came from a select few, whose triumphs, scandals, and correspondence are well documented in Inventing Paradise, along with other little-known facts about L.A. history, including:

  • How Los Angeles Times chief Harry Chandler pushed eugenics and endorsed “white spots”
  • Henry Huntington’s and Moses Sherman’s trolley systems and the extortion-type practices that led to their expansion
  • When Los Angeles was so desperate for water, it hired a miracle worker who promised rain
  • How L.A.’s power elite peddled the lie that the Owens River used to flow into Los Angeles and rightfully belonged to the city
  • When Los Angeles annexed a city in which monkeys cast votes
  • How Venice, California, was not the first Venice, California
  • William Mulholland’s game-changing construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, which raised the city’s population ceiling from 250,000 to 2.5 million

    Haddad also covers the heavy costs that came with creating paradise in such a short period of time, including car dependency, environmental problems, and deep-seated inequities between wealthy white Angelenos and people of color due to racist policies. All have left an imprint on present-day Los Angeles.

    Los Angeles is a city that should not exist—and yet it does. Through Inventing Paradise, Haddad shows readers that Los Angeles is not a paradise found, but a paradise that was willed into existence, owing to the collective vision of these six Gilded Era-born tycoons.

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    Sprog: Engelsk
    Sider: 400
    ISBN-13: 9781595801272
    Indbinding: Hardback
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    ISBN-10: 1595801278
    Kategori: Byplanlægning: arkitektoniske aspekter
    Udg. Dato: 1 aug 2024
    Længde: 34mm
    Bredde: 165mm
    Højde: 235mm
    Forlag: Santa Monica Press
    Oplagsdato: 1 aug 2024
    Forfatter(e): Paul Haddad
    Forfatter(e) Paul Haddad

    Kategori Byplanlægning: arkitektoniske aspekter

    ISBN-13 9781595801272

    Sprog Engelsk

    Indbinding Hardback

    Sider 400

    Udgave

    Længde 34mm

    Bredde 165mm

    Højde 235mm

    Udg. Dato 1 aug 2024

    Oplagsdato 1 aug 2024

    Forlag Santa Monica Press

    Kategori sammenhænge