Los Angeles: Bibliography

See R. M. Fogelson, The Fragmented Metropolis (1967); R. Banham, Los Angeles (1973); R. Steiner, Los Angeles: The Centrifugal City (1982); H. J. Nelson, The Los Angeles Metropolis (1982); S. L. Bottles, Los Angeles and the Automobile: The Making of the Modern City (1987); M. Davis, Los Angeles (1991) and Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (1998); B. Gumprecht, The Los Angeles River (1999); D. Kipen, Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018 (2018).

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• History
• Points of Interest
• Communities of the Metropolitan Area
• Economy and Transportation
• Bibliography

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