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CONCRETE UTOPIA: THE DEVELOPMENT OF ROADS AND FREEWAYS IN
LOS ANGELES, 1910-1950
by
Matthew William Roth
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
(HISTORY)
May 2007
Copyright 2007 Matthew William Roth
Object Description
| Title | Concrete utopia: the development of roads and freeways in Los Angeles, 1910-1950 |
| Author | Roth, Matthew William |
| Author email | matt.roth@mindspring.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | History |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-05-10 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-07-25 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Ethington, Philip |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Deverell, William Hise, Greg |
| Abstract | This study examines the production of the public places of automotive transportation in Los Angeles. It consists primarily of a series of detailed case studies of the roads and freeways that helped to establish the patterns of infrastructure and settlement in the city and region of Los Angeles. Interrogating the physical reality of the automotive infrastructure provides the critical perspective for this work. By relentlessly focusing on the sites and structures of transportation, this study first fills in the material history of those places that lurk behind the grandiose narratives of politics and culture in 20th-century Los Angeles and ultimately aims to revise our understanding of politics and culture as they intersect with urban place production. |
| Keyword | roads; freeways; politics; engineering; Los Angeles; urban culture |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Los Angeles |
| Geographic subject (county) | Los Angeles |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 1910/1950 |
| 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-m662 |
| Rights | Roth, Matthew William |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Roth-20070725 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume51/etd-Roth-20070725.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Full text | CONCRETE UTOPIA: THE DEVELOPMENT OF ROADS AND FREEWAYS IN LOS ANGELES, 1910-1950 by Matthew William Roth 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 (HISTORY) May 2007 Copyright 2007 Matthew William Roth |
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