California Water Plan (2023 update)
American Planning Association, California Chapter, Los Angeles
Center for Land Use Interpretation
City of Los Angeles, Department of City Planning
City of Los Angeles, Department of City Planning, OurLA2040
County of Los Angeles, Department of Regional Planning, General Plan 2035
LA2050 (data and indicators about the state of urban L.A.)
Cuff, Dana, The provisional city: Los Angeles stories of architecture and urbanism, MIT Press, NA7238.L6 C84 2000
Deener, Andrew, Venice: a contested Bohemia in Los Angeles, University of Chicago Press, HN80.L7 D44 2012
Deverell, William & Greg Hise, A companion to Los Angeles, Wiley-Blackwell, F869.L857 C66 2010
Deverell, William & Tom Sitton, Water and Los Angeles: a tale of three rivers, 1900-1941, University of California Press, HD4464.L7 D48 2016 (also via JSTOR)
Erie, Steven P. & Harold Brackman, Beyond Chinatown: the Metropolitan Water District, growth, and the environment in Southern California, Stanford University Press, HC107 .C23 E5585 2006
Estrada, William D., The Los Angeles Plaza: sacred and contested space, University of Texas Press, 2008 (via Ebook Central)
Hines, Thomas S., Architecture of the sun: Los Angeles modernism, 1900-1970, Rizzoli, NA735. L55 H56 2010
Mendoza, Rubén, The California missions, Rizzoli International Publications, F864 .M46 2018
Mulholland, Catherine, William Mulholland and the rise of Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2000 (via Ebook Central)
Musicant, Marlyn (editor), Los Angeles Union Station, Getty Research Institute, NA6313.L67 L67 2014
Sloane, David C. (editor), Planning Los Angeles, American Planning Association, NA9127.L7 P52 2012
Soja, Edward W., My Los Angeles: from urban restructuring to regional urbanization, University of California Press, HT168.L6 S65 2014
Wachs, Martin & Margaret Crawford, The car and the city: the automobile, the built environment, and daily urban life, University of Michigan Press, HE5623 .C33 1992
Walton, John, Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture and Rebellion in California, University of California Press, HN79.C22949 1992
Wit, Wim de & Christopher James Alexander, Overdrive: L.A. constructs the future, 1940-1990, The Getty Research Institute, NA735.L55 O94 2013
Estrada, William D., Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space, University of Texas Press, 2008 (via Ebook Central)
Gutierrez, Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush, F864.C735 1998
Hoffman, Abraham, “Water Famine or Water Needs: Los Angeles and Population Growth, 1896-1905,” Southern California Quarterly, Fall 2000, p.257-278
Hoffman, Abraham & Teena Stern, “The Zanjas and the Pioneer Water Systems for Los Angeles,” Southern California Quarterly, Spring 2007, p.1-22
“Mission San Fernando Rey de España 1797-1997,” Southern California Quarterly, Fall 1997 (Theme issue via Jstor)
Starr, Kevin, Americans and the California Dream 1850-1915, Oxford University Press, F867.M25 (Starr’s series is the standard history)
Tejani, James, “Dredging the future: the destruction of coastal estuaries and the creation of metropolitan Los Angeles, 1858-1913,” Southern California Quarterly, Spring 2014, p.5-39 (via Jstor)
Torres-Rouff, David Samuel, Before L.A.: race, space, and municipal power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894, Yale University Press, F869.L857 T67 2013
Hise, Greg & William Deverell, Eden by design: the 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew plan for the Los Angeles region, University of California Press, HT394.L67 E34 2000
Roseman, Curtis C., The historic core of Los Angeles, Arcadia, F869.L88 A27 2004
Schrank, Sarah, “Public art at the global crossroads: the politics of place in 1930s Los Angeles,” Journal of Social History, Vol.44, #2, Winter 2010, p.435-457 (via JSTOR)
Sitton, Tom & William Deverell (editors), Metropolis in the making: Los Angeles in the 1920s, F869. L857 M48 2001 (also via Ebook Central)
Starr, Kevin, Endangered Dreams: the great depression in California, Oxford University Press, HB3717 1919.S73 1996
Starr, Kevin, Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era, Oxford University Press, F867.S8 1985
Starr, Kevin, Material Dreams: Southern California through the 1920s, Oxford University Press, F867.S82 1990
Ward, Josi, “’Dreams of Oriental romance’: reinventing Chinatown in 1930s Los Angeles,” Buildings & Landscapes, Spring 2013, p.19-42 (via JSTOR)
Winter, Robert, Architecture of entertainment: L.A. in the twenties, Gibbs Smith, Publisher, NA735.L55 W56 2006
Arts & Architecture (The classic L.A. magazine, published until 1967. Revived briefly in the 1980s)
“Bunker Hill: rehabilitation of a blighted area,” California Arts & Architecture, July 1943, p.[31]-[35]
Connor, Michan Andrew, “Holding the center: images of urbanity on television in Los Angeles, 1950-1970,” Southern California Quarterly, Vol.94, #2, Summer 2012, p.230-255
Jackson, Lesley, Contemporary: architecture and interiors of the 1950s, Phaidon Press, NA-682.I58 C66 1994
“Los Angeles,” Architectural Record, April 1968 (Theme issue on planning)
“A modern city plans its future: the new administrative center for Los Angeles, California,” California Arts & Architecture, November 1940, p.[22]-[23]
Phoenix, Charles, Southern California in the ‘50s: sun, fun, fantasy, Angel City Press, F867 .P5 2001
Starr, Kevin, The Dream Endures: California enters the 1940s, Oxford University Press, F866.S78 1997
Starr, Kevin, Golden dreams: California in an age of abundance, 1950-1963, Oxford University Press, F866.2 .S733 2009
“Workshop in Watts,” Architectural Forum, January/February 1969
Banham, Reyner, Los Angeles: the architecture of four ecologies, Penguin Books, NA735.L55 B3 1973
Bussard, Katherine A., et al, The city lost & found: capturing New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, 1960-1980, Princeton University Art Museum, N8217.C35 B87 2014
Cenzatti, Marco, Los Angeles and the L.A. School, Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, F869.L83 C36 1993
Davis, Mike, City of Quartz, Verso, HN80.L7D38 1991
Herbert, Steven Kelly, Policing Space: Territoriality and the Los Angeles Police Department, University of Minnesota Press, 1996 (via Ebook Central)
Jencks, Charles, Heteropolis: Los Angeles, the riots and the strange beauty of hetero-architecture, Ernst & Sohn, NA735.L55 J46 1993
Keil, Roger, Los Angeles: Globalization, Urbanization, and Social Struggles, J. Wiley, HT384.L77K45 1998 (Good survey of L.A. & the L.A. School)
Los Angeles Department of City Planning, Citywide general plan framework, HT168.L6L68 1995
Los Angeles Department of City Planning, Los Angeles central city community plan, HT168.L8 L89 1991
Moore, Charles, The city observed: Los Angeles, a guide to its architecture and landscapes, NA735.L55M66 1998 (Originally published 1984, but the discursive texts are still provocative)
Scott, Allen J. & Edward W. Soja, The City, University of California Press, HN80.L7C57 1996
Southern California Association of Governments, 1975 regional transportation plan, SCAG, HE310 .L68 G88 1975
Southern California Association of Governments, Regional mobility plan, SCAG, HE310 .L68 G88 1984
Suisman, Douglas R., Los Angeles Boulevard: eight x-rays of the body public, Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Design, HE356.5.L7 S8 1989
Toy, Maggie, Los Angeles, Academy Editions, NA737.L55 L66 1994
Berry, Bob, et al (editors), LA Forum reader, Actar, HT168.L6 L34 2018
California Transportation Plan (2040)
California Water Plan (2023 update)
American Planning Association, California Chapter, Los Angeles
Center for Land Use Interpretation
City of Los Angeles, Department of City Planning
City of Los Angeles, Department of City Planning, OurLA2040
County of Los Angeles, Department of Regional Planning, General Plan (2035)
Curbed L.A. (up-to-date but often unverified development & real estate news by Lockhart Steele / Curbed Network)
Dimendberg, Edward (editor), Facing the music: documenting Walt Disney Concert Hall and the redevelopment of downtown Los Angeles, East of Borneo Books, F869.L84 F33 2015
Gottlieb, Robert, Reinventing Los Angeles: nature and community in the global city, MIT Press, HT168. L6 G68 2007 (also via Ebook Central)
Hawthorne, Christopher, “LA reimagined: taking steps toward a denser, more transit-friendly city,” Planning, January 2012, p.10-15
LA2050 (data and indicators about the state of urban L.A.)
Laird, Lorelei, “Restoring the 'water freeway': how Los Angeles is turning its river from an afterthought into a destination,” Planning, January 2012, p.26-31
Maltzan, Michael, No more play: conversations on open space and urban speculation in Los Angeles and beyond, Hatje Cantz Verlag, NA9127.L7 M35 2011
Marks, Mara A., “Shifting Ground: The Rise and Fall of the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency,” Southern California Quarterly, Fall 2004, p.241-290 (via JSTOR)
Mayne, Thom, et al, L.A. Now, University of California Press, NA9127.L7 L142 2002
Peterson, Marina, City in the Twenty-First Century: Sound, Space, and the City: Civic Performance in Downtown Los Angeles, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)
Port of Los Angeles Master Plan (2014)
Stockstill, Michael, “The long journey back,” Planning, July 2018, p.32-39 (Plans for L.A. River)
Varnelis, Kazys, The infrastructural city: networked ecologies in Los Angeles, Actar; The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, HT168 .L8 I54 2008
Zell, Jennifer, “A river to live by: how Los Angeles River is evolving from a giant storm drain into something much more complex,” Landscape Architecture Magazine, April 2014, p.128-141
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