Inventing Autopia: Dreams and Visions of the Modern Metropolis in Jazz Age Los Angeles

摘要

Inventing Autopia: Dreams and Visions of the Modern Metropolis in Jazz Age Los Angeles represents a significant effort to understand why Los Angeles ventured away from a more conventional, concentric urban form, and to what end. Axelrod locates the crucial moment of departure in the 1920s, when city and regional planners decided they could best meld a metropolis into the landscape of Southern California by rejecting the crowding of Eastern cities and promoting a series of self-sufficient Garden Cities along the lines of Ebenezer Howard's popular vision.