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Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles

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Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles

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SKU: 9780374150426 Category: Product ID: 246907

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Title: Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Author: BALDWIN ROSECRANS
Illustrator: 1 MAP
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 31/08/2021
Imprint: FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX
Price: $46.00
Publishing status: Active

America is obsessed with Los Angeles. And America has been thinking about Los Angeles all wrong, for decades, on repeat. Los Angeles is not just the place where the American dream hits the Pacific. Not just the end of the line anymore. Not just the vanishing point of America’s western drive. Not just a city.

Los Angeles is best understood as a city-state. Functionally, aesthetically, mythologically, even technologically—a small independent territory, a sovereign place, a city and surrounding regions bound together by population density and an aura of autonomy and a sense of unfurling destiny. This is Los Angeles.

Deeply researched and reported, provocatively argued, and eloquently sung, Rosecrans Baldwin's <i>Everything Now</i> reveals the borders and probes the ecology of this Great American City-State, enumerates its cultural treasures and economic prowess, hails its heroes and charts its landmarks, plumbs its social and economic history, catalogs its canonical literature (from John Fante to Joan Didion to Mike Davis to Octavia Butler), probes its religions and spiritual practices, its languages and cuisines, and seeks the keys to its future. It is a protean, vibrant place—vastly more than its many, many parts.

Welcome to Los Angeles, the Great American City-State.

ISBN: 9780374150426
Weight: 300gr
Dimension: 208mm X 135mm
Pages: 272

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Weight 300 g
Dimensions 208 × 135 mm