Ghost Metropolis: Los Angeles from Clovis to Nixon Main Menu Regimes: Ruling the Los Angeles Region from the Late Pleistocene to the 21st Century Places and Paths of Los Angeles Manna From Hell: Power and Politics from Region to World Power Shadows: Visual Cultures and Mass Media of a Regional and Global Power Segregated Diversity: The Geosocial Formation of Social Justice in the Late Twentieth Century Richard 37th: Nixon, Los Angeles, and World Power The American 1989: Los Angeles at the Climax of the 20th Century Narrative Essay Bibliographies, Filmographies, Gazeteers, Indexes Mapping the Past: Theory, Methods, Historiography Path Credits Root

Note for Reviewers

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After receiving referee reports in May of 2014, Ethington revised many parts of Ghost Metropolis, and added a significant amount of new material.  That new material is especially pronounced in several major essays: The Revolutionary Moment of 1911; Target Tokyo; and the four essays in the Path Richard 37th.  Several short essays were removed since May 2014, or combined with others.  A great deal of work has gone into setting-up the various Paths through introductions.

The referee reports of May 2014 asked for greater clarity of navigation so that the reader can be more aware of the full content of the work.  This has largely been accomplished through the implementation of software enhancements in the upgrade of the Scalar platform, designed to improve the reader's experience.

Referees also asked, reasonably enough, for a better approach to navigating the cartography on which Ghost Metropolis heavily relies.  Reviewers of this current version must be warned, however, that the plan for a fluid way for readers to explore Ghost Metropolis cartographically has not yet been implemented.  Technically, the plan is quite feasible, and is underway right now, to be completed by about April of 2016.

Referees of this current state of the book are asked to imagine the following navigational functionality.  The plan is to implement a fluid way for readers to explore the book by jumping from textual discussion to maps, and from map reading back to the textual discussion about features in maps.  This principle will be implemented equally for text-photograph / photograph-text, and for any other media-text relationships.  The method is quite simple: A "link to related materials" will appear next to many discussion in the text, from which the reader can depart to inspect a map or media object.  While at the map or media object, the reader will be able to jump back to the text where she/he left off.  This will be accomplished through "anchors" embedded at the top of every paragraph.  The reason why this whole network of links is not yet implemented is simply that the text needed to become fully complete and stabilized before the work of forging all these links could begin.

In general, the final "design" of Ghost Metropolis is awaiting a cycle of work in Spring of 2016, prior to the projected release date of early 2017.  This means that the Ghost Metropolis you see here is very bare-bones, design-wise.  It uses primarily the "default" design options built into Scalar.  One reason for leaving it so, is for the reviewers not to be distracted by digital-visual design--in short how good it "looks" as a finished product.  The focus for now is on the arguments and evidence of the book, textual-visual-cartographic, and all criteria that are normally applied to print books.