Paul Haddad

Freewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Santa Monica Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9781595801012
• ISBN-10: 1595801014
• Artikelnr.: 60945469

Autorenporträt

Paul Haddad's books include the Los Angeles Times bestseller, 10,000 Steps a Day in L.A.: 57 Walking Adventures, and 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 ). 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 University of Southern California'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, best-selling 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.

Inhaltsangabe

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)
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