Blue Sky Metropolis The Aerospace Century in Southern California

Name: Blue Sky Metropolis The Aerospace Century in Southern California
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ISBN: 9780873282499

ISBN-10: 0873282493

ISBN-13: 9780873282499

Edition: 2012

Authors: Peter J. Westwick, William Deverell

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Why did Southern California become the aerospace capital of the world? What were the consequences of this development for the region, for the nation, and for aerospace itself? Featuring essays by a multidisciplinary group of leading scholars and writers, this volume investigates the intersection of aerospace and Southern California through the lenses of anthropology, history of science and technology, labor, business, ethnicity and gender, architecture, and the environment.

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/4/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 290
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Photoessay: An Album of Early Southern California Aviation




The Human Element


Lost in Aerospace



Cold Warrior's Daughter




The Work


Robert E. Gross and the Rise of Lockheed: The Creative Tension between Engineering and Finance



Los Angeles Aircraft Workers and the Consolidation of Cold War Politics



The Vanishing Act: Stealth Airplanes and Cold War Southern California




Culture


Spaces for the Space Age: William Pereira's Aerospace Modernism



Aerospace and Hollywood: How Computer Animation Went from Space to Cineplex



From L5 to X Prize: California's Alternative Space Movement




Communities


Engineering a New Space: Chinese American Scientists and Engineers in Aerospace in Southern California



The Air Force and the Chumash: The "Curse of Slick-6"




Geography


Aerospace in the Rest of California: The View from Silicon Valley



Blueprinting the Regional City: The Urban and Environmental Legacies of the Air Industry in Southern California



Afterword



Selected Bibliography on Southern California Aerospace


Contributors


Index