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Suburbia, Automobility, and Metropolitan Space, 1930s-1950s: FOOTNOTES

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Suburbia.  The word evokes the mythical American landscape.  Removed somehow from the central cities that they serve, suburbs have been claimed by many to define the American Dream.  Los Angeles is heavily implicated in this movement.  

The central-city regime of Norris Paulson in the 1950s led the planning for a makeover of Downtown LA to better serve a white, suburban clientele: Making Chavez Ravine into Dodger Stadium and Bunker Hill into a performing arts center.

The massive wartime buildup generated not only an acute demand for housing, but also, a technological aesthetic valorizing movement, flight, and streamlines. Both the New Deal and the war also generated a will and a bureaucratic capacity for planning: moving millions of persons and millions of dollars worth of goods to and through specific sites created a Mandarin class of “planners” who thought on a large scale of social planning. The modernist architectural movement led by John Entenza, Richard Neutra, and visually publicized by Julius Shulman set the design standard for the entire era, but the contradictions of that movement arose most powerfully in the rise of postwar “suburbia.”





[1] Longstreth (1999): 116-120. Quotation at 119.  'Post War House' to Display Use of New-Era Innovations." LA Times. March 3 1946; "Home of Tomorrow's Premiere Announced" LA Times March 9, 1951; "Throngs Continue to Visit Home of Tomorrow Exhibit" LA Times April 15, 1951; "LAistory: The Post-War House & The Home of Tomorrow" LAist, http://laist.com/2009/02/07/laistory_the_post-war_house.php#photo-1.  Accessed 6 Feb 2015.

[2] Quoted in Hardwick (2004): 82, 95.

[3] Longstreth (1997): 241-245. Quotation at 243.

[4] Hardwick (2004): 93-103.

[5] Longstreth (1997): 330.

[6] Longstreth (1997): 323-335.

[7] Baker and Funaro (1951): 6, cited in Hardwick (2004): 94, 249n6.

[8] Longstreth (1997): 227.

[9] Longstreth (1997): 231.

[10] Keane (2001): 74, 76.

[11] Keane (2001): 79-80, 82-4; Longstreth (1997): 238-245; Hise (1997): 143-4.

[12] Keane (2001): 92-4.

[13] Quoted in Keane (2001): 103.

[14] Keane (2001): 106-7.

[15] Paid advertisement in The Saturday Evening Post in 22 January 1944 [22 Jan 1944], quoted in Keane, Fritz B. Burns, p. 107.

[16] On Lakewood Mall, Waldie (1996): 77-84; All other malls listed in this paragraph are covered in Longstreth, (1997): 341, 463n53.

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