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New York and Los Angeles: The Uncertain Future

David Halle and Andrew A. Beveridge

Abstract

Over the last century, New York and Los Angeles, America's two largest cities and urban regions, have constantly reinvented themselves in surprisingly ways. In the 1950s, central cities were viewed as declining due to flight of the suburbia-bound middle class. In the late 1990s, gentrification led to more and more sections of major U.S. cities being occupied by the wealthy, and after the 2007 financial and economic crisis, the momentum for gentrification has slowed. Today, the direction of New York and Los Angeles is highly uncertain, as uncertain as it has been for many decades. Drawing on a ... More

Keywords: New York, Los Angeles, urban, city, gentrification, immigration, policing, residential segregation, public education reform, economic crisis

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2013 Print ISBN-13: 9780199778386
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2013 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199778386.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

David Halle, editor
UCLA

Andrew A. Beveridge, editor
Queen's College and CUNY Graduate Center

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

New York and Los Angeles

Chapter 1 New York and Los Angeles The Uncertain Future

David Halle, and Andrew A. Beveridge

Part one Overview

Chapter 2 The Big Picture

Andrew A. Beveridge, and Sydney J. Beveridge

Chapter 3 The New York and Los Angeles Economies from Boom to Crisis

David L. Gladstone, and Susan S. Fainstein

Chapter 4 America’s Leading International Trade Centers and their Entrepreneurial Agencies

Jameson W. Doig, Steven P. Erie, and Scott A. MacKenzie

Part two Politics and Economics

Chapter 5 New York City and Los Angeles

John Mollenkopf, and Raphael J. Sonenshein

Chapter 6 Financial, Economic, and Political Crises

David Halle, and Andrew A. Beveridge

Chapter 7 New York City and Los Angeles

George Sweeting, and Andrea Dinneen

Part Three Social and Urban Problems

Chapter 8 Policing, Crime, and Legitimacy in New York and Los Angeles

Jeffrey Fagan, and John MacDonald

Chapter 9 Los Angeles and New York City Schools

Julia Wrigley

Chapter 10 How New York and Los Angeles Housing Policies Are Different—and Maybe Why

Ingrid Gould Ellen, and Brendan O’Flaherty

Chapter 11 Residential Diversity and Division

Andrew A. Beveridge, David Halle, Edward Telles, and Beth Leavenworth Dufault

Part Four Immigration and Ethnic Communities

Chapter 12 New York and Los Angeles as Immigrant Destinations

Nancy Foner, and Roger Waldinger

Chapter 13 The Transformation of Chinese American Communities New York vs. Los Angeles

Margaret M. Chin, Min Zhou, and Rebecca Y. Kim

Part five Planning and Environmentalism

Chapter 14 Planning Los Angeles

Andrew Deener, Steven P. Erie, Vladimir Kogan, and Forrest Stuart

Chapter 15 A Land Ethic for the City of Water

Kristen Van Hooreweghe, Steve Lang, and William Kornblum

Chapter 16 Environmental and Social Justice Movements and Policy Change in Los Angeles

Martha M. Matsuoka, and Robert Gottlieb

Part Six Culture

Chapter 17 Los Angeles, Where Architecture Is At

Rick Bell

Chapter 18 New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago as Depicted in Hit Movies

David Halle, Eric Vanstrom, Jan Reiff, and Ted Nitschke

Chapter 19 The Nonprofit Sector in New York City and Los Angeles

Helmut K. Anheier, Marcus Lam, and David B. Howard

End Matter

Bibliography

Index