Los Angeles Plaza Sacred and Contested Space

Name: Los Angeles Plaza Sacred and Contested Space
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ISBN: 9780292717558

ISBN-10: 0292717555

ISBN-13: 9780292717558

Edition: 2008

Authors: William David Estrada, Devra Weber

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City plazas worldwide are centers of cultural expression and artistic display. They are settings for everyday urban life where daily interactions, economic exchanges, and informal conversations occur, thereby creating a socially meaningful place at the core of a city. At the heart of historic Los Angeles, the Plaza represents a quintessential public space where real and imagined narratives overlap and provide as many questions as answers about the development of the city and what it means to be an Angeleno. The author, a social and cultural historian who specializes in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Los Angeles, is well suited to explore the complex history and modern-day…

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 4/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 5.90" wide x 8.90" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

WILLIAM DAVID ESTRADA is Curator of California and American History and Chair of the History Department for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Devra Weber is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside.



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Cultural and Historical Origins



The Rise and Decline of the Mexican Plaza



From Ciudad to City



Homelands Remembered



Revolution and Public Space



Reforming Culture and Community



Parades, Murals, and Bulldozers



Politics and Preservation



The Persistence of Memory


Notes


Bibliography


Index