Los Angeles / by Tara De Lis. by De Lis, Tara

“…Los Angeles (Calif.) Guidebooks. sh2008116071…”

Los Angeles : biography of a city / [selected by] John & LaRee Caughey.

“…Los Angeles (Calif.) History. sh 85078419…”

Los Angeles : people, places, and the castle on the hill / A.M. Homes. by Homes, A. M.

Subjects: “…Chateau Marmont (Los Angeles, Calif.)…”

Los Angeles : the architecture of four ecologies / Reyner Banham ; with a new foreword by Joe Day. by Banham, Reyner

Subjects: “…Architecture California Los Angeles.…”

Los Angeles / by the Ford Motor Company.

“…Los Angeles (Calif.)…”
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Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles / KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.).

Table of Contents: “…Chandler's View of L.A. (2:34) -- Chandler's Writing Career (2:10) -- Philip Marlowe Character (1:55) -- Police Corruption (2:52) -- Gun Proliferation (1:00) -- Gambling Ships & "Farewell, My Lovely" (2:57) -- Real-Life Detective & Corruption Opposition (3:06) -- Threats & Corruption in City Hall (2:12) -- LAPD-Sponsored Bombing (3:16) -- Kynette Conviction & Mayor Recall (2:48) -- Crackdown on Vice (1:33) -- Credits: Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles (1:20)…”
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Writing Los Angeles : a literary anthology / edited by David L. Ulin.

Table of Contents: “…from Echoes in the city of the angels / Helen Hunt Jackson -- The land / Mary Austin -- from The rules of the game / Stewart Edward White -- from Sixty years in Southern California, 1853-1913 / Harris Newmark -- California and America / Vachel Lindsay -- from Laughing in the jungle / Louis Adamic -- Los Angeles. A rhapsody / Aldous Huxley -- Sister Aimee / H.L. …”

Imagining Los Angeles : a city in fiction / David Fine. by Fine, David M., 1934-

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Ethnic Los Angeles / Roger Waldinger and Mehdi Bozorgmehr, editors.

Subjects: “…Ethnology California Los Angeles.…”

The burning of Los Angeles : poems / by Samuel Maio. by Maio, Samuel, 1955-

Twilight--Los Angeles / conceived, written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith. by Smith, Anna Deavere

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The Los Angeles diaries : a memoir / James Brown. by Brown, James, 1957-

Subjects: “…Brown, James, 1957- Homes and haunts California Los Angeles.…”

Los Angeles in fiction : a collection of original essays / edited by David Fine.

“…Los Angeles (Calif.) In literature. n 79021240…”

Los Angeles spring / Robert Adams. by Adams, Robert, 1937-

Subjects: “…Landscape photography California Los Angeles Region.…”

Los Angeles in the 1930s : the WPA guide to the City of Angels. by Administration, Federal Writers Project of the Works Project

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Cover; Title; Title; Copyright; Copyright; Contents; Contents; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF MAPS; LIST OF MAPS; THE WPA GUIDE TO RENAISSANCE FLORENCE, OR A WRITER'S PARADISE; THE WPA GUIDE TO RENAISSANCE FLORENCE, OR A WRITER'S PARADISE; PREFACE 1941; PREFACE 1941; GENERAL INFORMATION; GENERAL INFORMATION; HOTEL AND OTHER ACCOMMODATIONS; HOTEL AND OTHER ACCOMMODATIONS; RESTAURANTS; RESTAURANTS; NIGHT CLUBS; NIGHT CLUBS; RECREATIONAL FACILITIES; RECREATIONAL FACILITIES; CALENDAR OF ANNUAL EVENTS; CALENDAR OF ANNUAL EVENTS; Part I. Los Angeles: A General Survey.…”
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Reinventing Los Angeles : nature and community in the global city / Robert Gottlieb. by Gottlieb, Robert, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…The reinvention of Los Angeles: an introduction -- Nature in the city -- Community in the city -- Water for the city -- Re-envisioning the Los Angeles river -- Cars and freeways in the city -- The magic of Arroyofest -- City of migrations -- Social change across borders -- Globalization from below: a conclusion -- Notes -- Index.…”
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Black Los Angeles : American dreams and racial realities / edited by Darnell Hunt and Ana-Christina Ramón.

Table of Contents: “…Race, space, and the evolution of Black Los Angeles / Paul Robinson -- From Central Avenue to Leimert Park: the shifting center of Black Los Angeles / Reginald Chapple -- The decline of a Black community by the sea: demographic and political changes in Oakwood / Andrew Deener -- "Blowing up" at Project Blowed: rap dreams and young Black men / Jooyoung Lee -- Out of the void: street gangs in Black Los Angeles / Alex Alonso -- Imprisoning the family: incarceration in Black Los Angeles / M. …”
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The Los Angeles Plaza : sacred and contested space / William David Estrada ; foreword by Devra Weber. by Estrada, William D.

Subjects: “…Public spaces California Los Angeles History.…”
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Anthropology of Los Angeles : place and agency in an urban setting / edited by Jenny Banh with Melissa King.

Table of Contents: “…Pacleb -- Bicycle anthropology of Los Angeles / Adonia E. Lugo, Allison Mattheis, with Maryann Aguirre -- The people in Los Angeles public spaces are not dead : micro-sociability in the squares, plazas, and parks of the post-modern global city / Nathalie Boucher -- Embodying democratic spaces : community organizer alternative narratives that challenge the mainstream negative stigma of South Los Angeles / George Villanueva -- Analysis of Latino-Korean relations in the workplace : Latino perspectives in the aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles civil unrest / Kyeyoung Park -- Memory : the Angeleno Pharmakon / Charles Joseph -- Multiple ways of knowing : layers of history on the Great Wall of Los Angeles / Andrea Lepage -- Making space : ethnic towns and the racing of public space in Los Angeles / Beth F. …”
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Poetry Los Angeles : reading the city's essential poems / Laurence Goldstein. by Goldstein, Laurence, 1943-

Subjects: “…American poetry California Los Angeles History and criticism.…”
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