"This fresh look at Los Angeles is clearly framed as a study whose
subject has national implications... Magnetic Los Angeles is the
first authoritative study we have on how the professionalization of
planning... affected practice, on how the idea of decentralization
became a major force in shaping the environment, and on the
intricate details of the process of community building... Hise
underscores how rich a yield studying Los Angeles can bring." --
Richard Longstreth, American Studies International
Magnetic Los Angeles challenges the widely held view of the
expanding twentieth-century city as the sprawling product of
dispersion without planning and lacking any discernable order.
Using Los Angeles as a case study, Greg Hise argues that the
twentieth-century metropolitan region is the product of conscious
planning -- by policy makers, industrialists, design professionals,
community builders, and homebuyers -- in direct response to
political and economic conditions of the 1920s and the Depression,
the defense emergency, and the immediate postwar years.
"Hise postulates a thesis that is as revolutionary as it is
straightforward... Hise's narrative is well written and clearly
structured, as he nimbly guides the reader through various
informational thickets... Magnetic Los Angeles is bound to initiate
a whole new direction in planning research." -- Robert Wojtowicz,
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
"Hise has written a fascinating history of L.A. and the thought
process behind its developments. He deflates the myth that this
megalopolis grew without rhyme or reason." -- Jack Kyser, Los
Angeles Times
"This is an important book and should be read by
anyoneinterested in the history of the city, the homebuilding
industry, and the twentieth-century western landscape." -- Stuart
McElderry, Western Historical Quarterly
"Hise's synthetic perspective is state-of-the-art: he breaks
important new ground in the analysis of metropolitan structure...
[and] affords us an alternative view of postwar urbanization, one
that can easily be translated to other urban settings." -- Robert
Hodder, Journal of Planning Education and Research
"A welcome and bracing dose of reality." -- Harold Henderson,
Planning
"Hise makes a compelling case for L.A. as a product of
middle-class dispersal from disquieting ethnic centers, the
Progressive Era's proselytism of the social hygiene in suburbs,
[and] 50 years of federal housing policy based on home ownership
and segregation." -- D. J. Waldie, Los Angeles Times
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