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To those of us who look at Los Angeles and see no sense at all, this text offers a vivid account of the particular visions that drove the period of Anglo dominance in the Los Angeles region, from about 1850 to about 1985. William McClung's essay, supported by illustrations, shows that Anglo settlers and developers wanted nothing more than to make sense of their surroundings, but that their two dominant paradigms were at war with each other. Anglophone Los Angeles, McClung says, has tried strenuously to reconcile two competing mythologies of place and space: one of an acquired Arcadia - a found natural paradise - and the other of an invented Utopia - an empty space inviting development. The collision between these two underlying ideals is still present in the ambivalence at the heart of the city's and region's understanding of themselves.
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"An important cultural study."--M. Catherine Miller, "Journal of the West"
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L.A.: City of the Past
On my first visit to Los Angeles in 1982 I listened to people at the baggage claim complaining about how awful it was. A few minutes later I was riding the Santa Monica freeway east and marvelling at the grandeur of the engineering and the lushness of the planting. L.A. is a unique synthesis of nature and architecture, and in driving around it I see not only its present-day splendors and miseries but also the remnants and symbols of its compromised and eradicated landscapes, from wilderness through ranchos to citrus groves, immense estates and modest bungalow courts. So far from being a city of the future, L.A. to me is the city that most poignantly gestures to its past.
On my first visit to Los Angeles in 1982 I listened to people at the baggage claim complaining about how awful it was. A few minutes later I was riding the Santa Monica freeway east and marvelling at the grandeur of the engineering and the lushness of the planting. L.A. is a unique synthesis of nature and architecture, and in driving around it I see not only its present-day splendors and miseries but also the remnants and symbols of its compromised and eradicated landscapes, from wilderness through ranchos to citrus groves, immense estates and modest bungalow courts. So far from being a city of the future, L.A. to me is the city that most poignantly gestures to its past.
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