One of the Top Urban Planning Books of 2022, Planetizen The full
and fascinating guidebook that Orange County deserves. A People's
Guide to Orange County is an alternative tour guide that documents
sites of oppression, resistance, struggle, and transformation in
Orange County, California. Orange County is more than the
well-known images on orange crate labels, the high-profile
amusement parks of Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm, or the
beaches. It is also a unique site of agricultural and suburban
history, political conservatism in a liberal state, and more
diversity and discordance than its pop-cultural images show. It is
a space of important agricultural labor disputes, segregation and
resistance to segregation, privatization and the struggle for
public space, politicized religions, Cold War global migrations,
vibrant youth cultures, and efforts for environmental justice.
Memorably, Ronald Reagan called Orange County the place "where all
the good Republicans go to die," but it is also the place where
many working-class immigrants have come to live and work in its
agricultural, military-industrial, and tourist service economies.
Orange County is the fifth-most populous county in America. If it
were a city, it would be the nation's third-largest city; if it
were a state, its population would make it larger than twenty-one
other states. It attracts 42 million tourists annually. Yet Orange
County tends to be a chapter or two squeezed into guidebooks to Los
Angeles or Disneyland. Mainstream guidebooks focus on Orange
County's amusement parks and wealthy coastal communities, with side
trips to palatial shopping malls. These guides skip over Orange
County's most heterogeneous half-the inland space, where most of
its oranges were grown alongside oil derricks that kept the orange
groves heated. Existing guidebooks render invisible the diverse
people who have labored there. A People's Guide to Orange County
questions who gets to claim Orange County's image, exposing the
extraordinary stories embedded in the ordinary landscape.
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