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Summary: Great Los Angeles book to read
Review: This book is for any person who likes to read about Los Angeles. Gives thoughts and theories of how and why L.A. developed the way it did. Ventura county politics and growth issues are also adressed in the book.
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Summary: Great Los Angeles book to read
Review: This book is for any person who likes to read about Los Angeles. Gives thoughts and theories of how and why L.A. developed the way it did. Ventura county politics and growth issues are also adressed in the book.
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Summary: Best Seller
Review: We're proud to announce that THE RELUCTANT METROPOLIS has made the Los Angeles Times non-fiction best seller list -- clocking in at #10 on the very first week it was eligible for listing
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Summary: Mike Davis without the dictionary
Review: William Fulton's a rockstar...he's a planner, he's a journalist, he lives in southern California, and he writes about southern California. Damn.This book is so well written. SoCal is very politically apathetic, so it takes some gripping prose to shake us out of our coma. He tackles bickering local agencies, squabbling egos, litigious neighboring cities, backlash against the entrenched growth "machine," opposition to mixed-use developments, and Chinatown water issues. The paperback edition has an Afterword chapter that brings us up-to-date with the subject matter. Fools whine that there's no professional football team in L.A., but can you believe that downtown's last 2 Fortune 500 corporations, Arco and Times Mirror, were eaten up by out-of-state companies in the 1990s?
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Summary: A must-read for anyone interested in planning or politics.
Review: Wow! William Fulton's look at the workings of Los Angeles government takes the reader on a trip through history to help discover how Los Angeles got to be how it is today. Many different case studies explore various elements of this "Reluctant" metropolis, such as the story of one particular block downtown, the fight with Las Vegas over water rights, how the urban transportation system came to be the way it is--and why it will never change, and how a college student singlehandedly and unintentionally changed the face of Ventura County politics forever. These are just a few of the fascinating tales William Fulton spins of Los Angeles. As a member of a Southern California transit advocacy group, I found the entire book hard to put down. After reading this well-written book, the reader should be more knowledgeable about the west's largest metropolis and how many elements come together to shape a region. I hope you enjoy this book with the same enthusiasm with which I did.
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Summary: A must-read for anyone interested in planning or politics.
Review: Wow! William Fulton's look at the workings of Los Angeles government takes the reader on a trip through history to help discover how Los Angeles got to be how it is today. Many different case studies explore various elements of this "Reluctant" metropolis, such as the story of one particular block downtown, the fight with Las Vegas over water rights, how the urban transportation system came to be the way it is--and why it will never change, and how a college student singlehandedly and unintentionally changed the face of Ventura County politics forever. These are just a few of the fascinating tales William Fulton spins of Los Angeles. As a member of a Southern California transit advocacy group, I found the entire book hard to put down. After reading this well-written book, the reader should be more knowledgeable about the west's largest metropolis and how many elements come together to shape a region. I hope you enjoy this book with the same enthusiasm with which I did. --James D. Umbach, Student (Government), CSU Sacramento
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