From Chicago to L.A.

LOS ANGELES AND THE 'LA SCHOOL' The Resistible Rise of the Los Angeles School - Michael J Dear and Steven Flusty Demographic Dynamism in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and Washington, DC - Dowell Myers Los Angeles as Postmodern Urbanism - Michael J Dear and Steven Flusty CITY OF INDUSTRY Industry and the Landscapes of Social Reform - Greg Hise Los Angeles as a Developmental City-State - Steven P Erie Industrial Urbanism in Late Twentieth-Cenctury Southern California - Allen J Scott RECONSIDERING COMMUNITY From Immigrants in the City, to Immigrant City - Jerome Straughan and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo The Globalization of Urban Homelessness - Madeleine R Stoner 'Play Groups' no Longer - Cheryl L Maxson & Malcom W Klein Urban Sreet Gangs in the Los Angeles Region Religion in Los Angeles - Donald E Miller Patterns of Spiritual Practice in a Postmodern City Ecologies of Cyberspace - J Dallas Dishman Gay Communities on the Internet RE-VISIONING URBAN THEORY Representing "Los Angeles" - Darnell M Hunt Media, Space, and Place Returning to Ecology - Ashwani Vasishth and David C Sloane An Ecosystem Approach to Understanding the City Urban Nature and the Nature of Urbanism - Jennifer Wolch, Stephanie Pincetl and Laura Pulido Saber Y Conocer - Phillip J Ethington and Martin Meeker The Metropolis of Urban Inquiry The LA School - Michael J Dear A Personal Introduction

"The book serves its purpose. It captures a range of the many landscapes that are Los Angeles, it presents a variety of perspectives on urban thought, and it leaves one with a sense about the L.A. School."