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Housing and Transportation
City of Segregation: one hundred years of struggle for housing in Los Angeles
by
Andrea Gibbons
Call Number: HD7288.76.U52 L6734 2018 (Second Floor)
Publication Date: 2018
Hidden History of Los Angeles Transportation
by
Charles P. Hobbs
Call Number: HE310 .L7 H63 2014 (Second floor)
Publication Date: 2014
Generation Priced Out: who gets to live in the new urban America
by
Randy Shaw
Call Number: HD7293 .S4385 2018 (Second floor)
Publication Date: 2018
Our National Disgrace: homelessness in the City of Angels
by
The Los Angeles Times Editorial Board
Call Number: HV4506.L67 O87 2018 (Second floor)
Publication Date: 2011
Architecture, Design, and Urban Planning
My Los Angeles: from urban restructuring to regional urbanization
by
Edward W. Soja
Call Number: Available online
Publication Date: 2014
City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the birth of modern Los Angeles
by
Jerald Podair
Call Number: GV417.D63 P63 2017 (Second floor)
Publication Date: 2017
An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles
by
Robert Winter; David Gebhard
Call Number: NA735 .L55 G44 2003 (Second floor)
Publication Date: 2003
Water and Los Angeles: a tale of three rivers, 1900-1941
by
William F. Deverell; Tom Sitton
Call Number: HD4464 .L7 D48 2017 (Second floor)
Publication Date: 2016
Community Histories and Experiences
1992 Los Angeles Riots
by
Greenhaven Press Editors (Editor); Louise I. Gerdes (Editor)
Call Number: F869 .L89 N414 2014 (Second floor)
Publication Date: 2014
Health Rights Are Civil Rights: peace and justice activism in Los Angeles, 1963-1978
by
Jenna M. Loyd
Call Number: Available online
Publication Date: 2014
Black and Brown in Los Angeles: Beyond Conflict and Coalition
by
Josh Kun (Editor); Laura Pulido (Editor)
Call Number: F869 .L89 A245 2013 (Second floor); Also available online
Publication Date: 2013
Zoot Suit Riots
by
Kevin Hillstrom
Call Number: F869 .L89 M447 2013 (Second floor); Also available online
Publication Date: 2012
The Limits of Community Policing: civilian power and police accountability in black and brown Los Angeles
by
Luis Daniel Gascón; Aaron Roussell
Call Number: HV8148.L55 G37 2019 (Second floor)
Publication Date: 2019
Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD
by
Max Felker-Kantor
Call Number: Available online
Publication Date: 2018
The First Angelinos: the Gabrielino Indians of Los Angeles
by
William McCawley; Harry Lawton
Call Number: Ref E 99 .G15 M34 1996 (First floor reference)
Publication Date: 1996
Art, Film, Food, Music, and Dance
Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels
by
Christina Zanfagna
Call Number: ML3921.8.R36 Z36 2017 (Second floor); Also available online
Publication Date: 2017
Los Angeles Street Food: a history from tamaleros to taco trucks
by
Christopher Elliott
Call Number: TX368 .E45 2015 (Second floor)
Publication Date: 2015
Salsa Crossings: dancing latinidad in Los Angeles
by
Cindy García
Call Number: GV1796 .S245 G37 2013 (Second floor)
Publication Date: 2013
Kids at Work: Latinx Families Selling Food on the Streets of Los Angeles
by
Emir Estrada
Call Number: Available online
Publication Date: 2019
Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity: music, race, and spatial entitlement in Los Angeles
by
Gaye Theresa Johnson
Call Number: F869.L89 A2533 2013 (Second floor); Also available online
Publication Date: 2013
MEX/la: Mexican Modernisms in Los Angeles 1930-1985
by
Mariana Botey (Text by); Harry Gamboa (Text by); Ana Elena Mallet (Text by); Catha Paquette (Text by)
Call Number: N6538 .M4 M49 2011 (Second floor)
Publication Date: 2011
Liberating Hollywood: women directors and the feminist reform of 1970s American cinema
by
Maya Montañez Smukler
Call Number: PN1995.9.W6 S638 2019 (Second floor)
Publication Date: 2018
Working in Hollywood: how the studio system turned creativity into labor
by
Ronny Regev
Call Number: PN1993.5 .U65 R44 2018 (Second floor)
Publication Date: 2018
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