Taking Back the Boulevard

Taking Back the Boulevard
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 262
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ISBN-10 : 9781479895700
ISBN-13 : 1479895709
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis Taking Back the Boulevard by : Jan Lin

The promises and conflicts faced by public figures, artists, and leaders of Northeast Los Angeles as they enliven and defend their neighborhoods Los Angeles is well known as a sprawling metropolis with endless freeways that can make the city feel isolating and separate its communities. Yet in the past decade, as Jan Lin argues in Taking Back the Boulevard, there has been a noticeable renewal of public life on several of the city’s iconic boulevards, including Atlantic, Crenshaw, Lankershim, Sunset, Western, and Wilshire. These arteries connect neighborhoods across the city, traverse socioeconomic divides and ethnic enclaves, and can be understood as the true locational heart of public life in the metropolis. Focusing especially on the cultural scene of Northeast Los Angeles, Lin shows how these gentrifying communities help satisfy a white middle-class consumer demand for authentic experiences of “living on the edge” and a spirit of cultural rebellion. These neighborhoods have gone through several stages, from streetcar suburbs, to disinvested neighborhoods with the construction of freeways and white flight, to immigrant enclaves, to the home of Chicano/a artists in the 1970s. Those artists were then followed by non-Chicano/a, white artists, who were later threatened with displacement by gentrifiers attracted by the neighborhoods’ culture, street life, and green amenities that earlier inhabitants had worked to create. Lin argues that gentrification is not a single transition, but a series of changes that disinvest and re-invest neighborhoods with financial and cultural capital. Drawing on community survey research, interviews with community residents and leaders, and ethnographic observation, this book argues that the revitalization in Northeast LA by arts leaders and neighborhood activists marks a departure in the political culture from the older civic engagement to more socially progressive coalition work involving preservationists, environmentalists, citizen protestors, and arts organizers. Finally, Lin explores how accelerated gentrification and mass displacement of Latino/a and working-class households in the 2010s has sparked new rounds of activism as the community grapples with new class conflicts and racial divides in the struggle to self-determine its future.

Taking Back the Boulevard

Taking Back the Boulevard
Author :
Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 262
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781479894192
ISBN-13 : 1479894192
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Taking Back the Boulevard by : Jan Lin

The promises and conflicts faced by public figures, artists, and leaders of Northeast Los Angeles as they enliven and defend their neighborhoods Los Angeles is well known as a sprawling metropolis with endless freeways that can make the city feel isolating and separate its communities. Yet in the past decade, as Jan Lin argues in Taking Back the Boulevard, there has been a noticeable renewal of public life on several of the city’s iconic boulevards, including Atlantic, Crenshaw, Lankershim, Sunset, Western, and Wilshire. These arteries connect neighborhoods across the city, traverse socioeconomic divides and ethnic enclaves, and can be understood as the true locational heart of public life in the metropolis. Focusing especially on the cultural scene of Northeast Los Angeles, Lin shows how these gentrifying communities help satisfy a white middle-class consumer demand for authentic experiences of “living on the edge” and a spirit of cultural rebellion. These neighborhoods have gone through several stages, from streetcar suburbs, to disinvested neighborhoods with the construction of freeways and white flight, to immigrant enclaves, to the home of Chicano/a artists in the 1970s. Those artists were then followed by non-Chicano/a, white artists, who were later threatened with displacement by gentrifiers attracted by the neighborhoods’ culture, street life, and green amenities that earlier inhabitants had worked to create. Lin argues that gentrification is not a single transition, but a series of changes that disinvest and re-invest neighborhoods with financial and cultural capital. Drawing on community survey research, interviews with community residents and leaders, and ethnographic observation, this book argues that the revitalization in Northeast LA by arts leaders and neighborhood activists marks a departure in the political culture from the older civic engagement to more socially progressive coalition work involving preservationists, environmentalists, citizen protestors, and arts organizers. Finally, Lin explores how accelerated gentrification and mass displacement of Latino/a and working-class households in the 2010s has sparked new rounds of activism as the community grapples with new class conflicts and racial divides in the struggle to self-determine its future.

Los Angeles Boulevard

Los Angeles Boulevard
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Publisher : Oro Editions
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1941806422
ISBN-13 : 9781941806425
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Los Angeles Boulevard by : Douglas R. Suisman

Architect and urban designer Suisman lays out his views on the urban structure of Los Angeles, exemplified by the long boulevards that cut across the urban body that is Los Angeles.

Crossing the Blvd

Crossing the Blvd
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Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Total Pages : 393
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0393057372
ISBN-13 : 9780393057379
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Crossing the Blvd by :

A collection of first-person narratives and anecdotes, close-up portrait photographs, and the author's personal and historical reflections capture the rich ethnic diversity of the people and landscapes of the borough of Queens in New York City, in a volume that comes complete with an audio rendition of the oral histories and music by composer Scott Johnson. Original.

Boulevard of Dreams

Boulevard of Dreams
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 224
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781534468993
ISBN-13 : 1534468994
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Boulevard of Dreams by : Mandy Gonzalez

Better Nate than Ever meets Love Sugar Magic in this spooky second novel in the Fearless middle grade series from Hamilton and Broadway star Mandy Gonzalez about a group of young thespians who time travel back to 1950s Broadway. Twelve-year-old Relly can’t wait for his beloved grandfather to finally see him on stage! Along with the rest of the Fearless Squad, Relly has just opened Our Time, a brand-new musical at the infamous Ethel Merman Theater. Though his grandfather would prefer his grandson pursue something more “practical,” Relly just knows when he sees the show, he will change his mind and come around on Relly’s love of theater and dance. But right before their night show, a member of the Squad loses their phone down an open manhole. When the entire Squad goes down to help retrieve it, they find themselves in 1950s Manhattan. A big problem, considering the curtain goes up in about two hours—and over sixty years in the future! With a series of clues, Relly discovers that his grandfather was a popular tap dancer, working the nightclub circuit and pursuing his dream of performing—something he’s been discouraging Relly from doing lately. Perhaps this accidental fall into a different time wasn’t so accidental after all. Can Relly help his grandfather and make it back in time for places in the show?

Stars Over Sunset Boulevard

Stars Over Sunset Boulevard
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 402
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780698197848
ISBN-13 : 0698197844
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Stars Over Sunset Boulevard by : Susan Meissner

In this novel from the acclaimed author of A Bridge Across the Ocean and The Last Year of the War, two women working in Hollywood during its Golden Age discover the joy and heartbreak of true friendship. Los Angeles, Present Day. When an iconic hat worn by Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind ends up in Christine McAllister’s vintage clothing boutique by mistake, her efforts to return it to its owner take her on a journey more enchanting than any classic movie.... Los Angeles, 1938. Violet Mayfield sets out to reinvent herself in Hollywood after her dream of becoming a wife and mother falls apart, and lands a job on the film-set of Gone With the Wind. There, she meets enigmatic Audrey Duvall, a once-rising film star who is now a fellow secretary. Audrey’s zest for life and their adventures together among Hollywood’s glitterati enthrall Violet...until each woman’s deepest desires collide. What Audrey and Violet are willing to risk, for themselves and for each other, to ensure their own happy endings will shape their friendship, and their lives, far into the future. CONVERSATION GUIDE INCLUDED

Wilshire Boulevard

Wilshire Boulevard
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1883318939
ISBN-13 : 9781883318932
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Wilshire Boulevard by : Kevin Roderick

Originally published in hardcover in 2005.

Hollywood Boulevard

Hollywood Boulevard
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Publisher : Unbridled Books
Total Pages : 353
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781609530754
ISBN-13 : 1609530756
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Hollywood Boulevard by : Janyce Stefan-Cole

With a deceptively simple style, this novel takes a compassionate look at complicated character, Ardennes Thrush, an award-winning movie star who suddenly and mysteriously quits acting.

Faces of Sunset Boulevard

Faces of Sunset Boulevard
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1595800409
ISBN-13 : 9781595800404
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Faces of Sunset Boulevard by : Patrick Ecclesine

Faces of Sunset Boulevard: A Portrait of Los Angeles is a collection of photographs of the people who live, work, and play in Los Angeles. Some are making fortunes along the route; others are just trying to survive to see another day. Patrick Ecclesine captures the city's dreams, dreamers, and, at times, nightmares using the most famous boulevard in the world as the setting for his photographs. The individuals featured range from the famous (Governor Schwarzenegger, Larry King, Fernando Valenzuela) to the unknown (a street vendor, an undocumented worker, a bus driver) to the unwanted (a homeless man, a single mother on welfare, a drug addict). Other archetypal Angeleno figures--from a television weather-girl sensation to a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon to surfers in Pacific Palisades to the eccentric and outlandish denizens of the Sunset Strip--stand side by side in these pages, capturing the eclectic nature of the City of Angels and its most colorful thoroughfare, Sunset Boulevard.

Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City

Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 356
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780801886812
ISBN-13 : 0801886813
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City by : Leslie Day

Throw it in your backpack, hop on the subway, and explore.