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Freewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles

Autor Paul Haddad
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 oct 2021
"Freewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles explores how social, economic, political, and cultural demands created the web of freeways whose very form--futuristic, majestic, and progressive--perfectly exemplifies the City of Angels."--Back cover.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781595801012
ISBN-10: 1595801014
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 228 x 152 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Santa Monica Press

Notă biografică

Paul Haddad's books include the Los Angeles Times Bestseller 10,000 Steps a Day in L.A.: 57 Walking Adventures; Aramid (first place, Best YA, at the 2016 Southern California Book Festival); High Fives, Pennant Drives, and Fernandomania: A Fan's History of the Los Angeles Dodgers' Glory Years, 1977-1981 (named one of the Best Baseball Books of 2012 by the Daily News), and Skinny White Freak (winner, Best YA, at the 2017 Los Angeles Book Festival). As a Hollywood-born native, he has written about Los Angeles for the Los Angeles Times and hosted a column on Huffington Post about L.A.'s forgotten history. He has authored three award-winning novels, including the L.A. Noir Paradise Palms: Red Menace Mob. A graduate of USC's School of Cinematic Arts, Haddad has been nominated for multiple Emmys as a documentary producer. PaulHaddadBooks.com, @la_dorkout

Patt Morrison is a journalist, author, and radio-television personality based in Los Angeles and Southern California. Morrison has a share of two Pulitzer Prizes as a longtime Los Angeles Times writer and columnist. As a public television and radio broadcaster, she has won six Emmys and a dozen Golden Mike awards.


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Each first date refers to the original opening segment of a freeway; the second date refers to a freeway's completion.

CHAPTER 1

THE ARROYO SECO

State Route 110

(1938-1953)

CHAPTER 2

THE HOLLYWOOD FREEWAY

U.S. Route 101 / State Route 170

(1940-1968)

CHAPTER 3

THE HARBOR FREEWAY

Interstate 110

(1952-1970)

CHAPTER 4

THE GOLDEN STATE FREEWAY

Interstate 5

(1955-1974)

CHAPTER 5

THE FOOTHILL FREEWAY

Interstate 210 / State Route 210

(1955-2007)

CHAPTER 6

THE VENTURA FREEWAY

U.S. Route 101 / State Route 134

(1955-1974)

CHAPTER 7

THE SAN DIEGO FREEWAY

Interstate 405 / Interstate 5

(1957-1969)

CHAPTER 8

THE GLENDALE FREEWAY

State Route 2

(1958-1978)

CHAPTER 9

THE SANTA MONICA FREEWAY

Interstate 10 / State Route 1

(1961-1966)

CHAPTER 10

THE SIMI VALLEY FREEWAY

State Route 118

(1968-1993)

CHAPTER 11

THE MARINA FREEWAY

State Route 90

(1968-1972)

CHAPTER 12

THE CENTURY FREEWAY

Interstate 105

(1993)