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Robert M. Fogelson’s The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850–1930,
Rosecrans Baldwin • Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
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all share a perception of the city as a site of mystery and seek to reveal the true nature that lies beneath the flux of the everyday.
Merlin Coverley • Psychogeography
In 1939 motordom's work culminated in one of the most monumental works of promotional showmanship in the history of technology: the Futuramamodel depicting the motorized city of 1960, displayed in General Motors' "Highways and Horizons" pavilion at the New York World's Fair. It was a motor age dream city, entirely dependent on automobiles
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