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BUILDING LOS ANGELES:
URBAN HOUSING IN THE SUBURBAN METROPOLIS, 1900-1936
by
Todd Douglas Gish
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(PLANNING)
August 2007
Copyright 2007 Todd Douglas Gish
Object Description
| Title | Building Los Angeles: urban housing in the suburban metropolis, 1900-1936 |
| Author | Gish, Todd Douglas |
| Author email | gish@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Planning |
| School | School of Policy, Planning, and Development |
| Date defended/completed | 2006-06-28 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 3 July 2009. |
| Date published | 2009-07-03 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Hise, Greg |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Sloane, David C. Baer, William C. Ross, Steven J. |
| Abstract | Multi-family housing played an important role -- thus far unacknowledged -- in the urbanization of Los Angeles from the beginning of the twentieth century. This fact challenges a persistent myth of early 1900s Los Angeles as a city of little else but handsome single-family bungalows on landscaped suburban lots, stretching from the mountains to the ocean.; As the City of Angels expanded dramatically between 1900 and the 1930s, booster elites engineered a successful "growth machine" of coordinated place promotion, pushing the powerful image of attractive houses available for purchase by all classes, all in the service of creating an industrial metropolis. Yet the need for conventionally urban rental housing found in many older US cities was also present in Los Angeles, emanating from predictable sectors of a booming populace: families, workers, young single people, and retirees. Moreover, southern California's growing tourism industry drove a huge, additional demand for convenient shelter among a long-term visiting population.; Thousands of apartments, flats, duplexes, and bungalow courts were the result. By the mid-1920s, about half of the city's housing stock was in multi-family units, and their design, construction, sale and operation became a major force in the local economy. Further, local policymakers had no choice but to address the proliferation of housing and related urban development as Los Angeles grew from town to city to metropolis in just a few brief, frenetic decades. Innovative zoning ordinances were just one outcome of these planning activities.; Los Angeles is regularly cited as the capital of suburban sprawl, and current discussions about this phenomenon -- a problem to some, merely a market outcome to others -- will benefit from a new, more accurate understanding of how this city has grown. |
| Keyword | housing; Los Angeles; urban history; urban planning; zoning |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Los Angeles |
| Geographic subject (county) | Los Angeles |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 1900/1936 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m579 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Gish, Todd Douglas |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@dots.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Gish-20070703 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume40/etd-Gish-20070703.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@dots.usc.edu |
| Full text | BUILDING LOS ANGELES: URBAN HOUSING IN THE SUBURBAN METROPOLIS, 1900-1936 by Todd Douglas Gish A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PLANNING) August 2007 Copyright 2007 Todd Douglas Gish |
