The Los Angeles School: Difference, Politics, City

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 189-206

  Nicholls, Walter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Difference; LA School; Los Angeles; Urban Theory

Indexed keywords

MARXISM; SOCIAL THEORY; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNIVERSITY SECTOR; URBAN POLITICS; URBAN SOCIETY;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650241289     PISSN: 03091317     EISSN: 14682427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2010.00978.x     Document Type: Article

References (61)

1. Alexander, J. (1992) Theoretical logic in sociology vol. 2: the antimonies of classical thought: Marx and Durkheim. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
2. Boudreau, J.A. and R. Keil (2001) Seceding from responsibility? Secession movements in Los Angeles. Urban Studies 38.10, 1701-31.
3. Brenner, N. (2003) Stereotypes, archetypes, and prototypes: three uses of superlatives in contemporary urban studies. City & Community 2.3, 205-16.
4. Burawoy, M. (1998) The extended case method. Sociological Theory 16.1, 4-33.
5. Burawoy, M. and E.O. Wright (2001) Sociological Marxism. In J. Turner (ed.), Handbook of Sociological Theory, Kluwer Academic, New York.
6. Castells, M. and J. Mollenkopf (1991) Conclusion: is New York a dual city? In J. Mollenkopf and M. Castells (eds.), Dual city: restructuring New York, Russell Sage Foundation, New York.
7. Davis, M. (1990) City of quartz: excavating the future in Los Angeles. Verso, London and New York.
8. Davis, M. (2000) Dead cities and other tales. The New Press, New York.
9. Dear, M. (1996) In the city, time becomes visible: intentionality and urbanism in Los Angeles, 1781-1991. In A. Scott and E. Soja (eds.), The city: Los Angeles and Urban theory at the end of the twentieth century, University of California Press, Berkeley.
10. Dear, M. (2000) The condition of postmodern urbanism. Blackwell, Oxford.
11. Dear, M. (ed.) (2002a) From Chicago to LA: making sense of urban theory. Sage, London.
12. Dear, M. (2002b) Los Angeles and the Chicago School: invitation to a debate. City and Community 1.1, 5-32.
13. Dear, M. and S. Flusty (2002) The resistible rise of the Los Angeles School. In M. Dear (ed.), From Chicago to LA: making sense of urban theory, Sage, London.
14. Dear, M. and M. Dahmann (2008) Urban politics and the Los Angeles School of urbanism. Urban Affairs Review 44.2, 266-79.
15. Durkheim, E. (1984 1893) The division of labor in society. Translated by W.D. Halls, The Free Press, New York.
16. Eisinger, P. (1997) Cities in the new federal order: effects of devolution. La Follette Report 8.1, 1-7.
17. Foucault, M. (1986) Of other spaces. Diacritics 16.1, 22-7.
18. Friedmann, J. (1986) The world city hypothesis. Development and Change 17.1, 69-84.
19. Friedmann, J. and G. Wolff (1982) World city formation: an agenda for research and action. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 6.3, 309-44.
20. Gieryn, T. (2006) City as truth-spot: laboratories and field-sites in urban studies. Social Studies of Science 36.1, 5-38.
21. Gottlieb, R., M. Vallianatos, L. Freer and P. Dreier (2005) The next Los Angeles: the struggle for a livable city. University of California Press, Berkeley.
22. Harvey, D. (1978) The urban process under capitalism: a framework for analysis. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 2.1, 100-31.
23. Keil, R. (1998) Los Angeles: globalization, urbanization, and social struggles. John Wiley, New York.
24. Laclau, E. and C. Mouffe (1985) Hegemony and socialist strategy: towards a radical democratic politics. Verso, London.
25. Lefebvre, H. (1991) The production of space. Blackwell, Oxford.
26. Milkman, R. (ed.) (2000) Organizing immigrants: the challenge for unions in contemporary California. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY.
27. Milkman, R. (2006) LA story: immigrant workers and the future of the US labor movement. Russell Sage Foundation, New York.
28. Nicholls, W.J. (2003) Forging a 'new' organizational infrastructure for Los Angeles' progressive community. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 27.4, 881-96.
29. Nicholls, W.J. (2008) The urban question revisited: the importance of cities for social movements. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 32.4, 1468-2427.
30. Nichols Clark, T. (2008) Program for a new Chicago School. Urban Geography 29.2, 154-6.
31. Pastor, M. (2001) Common ground at ground zero? The new economy and the new organizing in Los Angeles. Antipode 33.2, 260-89.
32. Pastor, M., J. Grigsby and M. Lopez-Garza (2000) Regions that work: how cities and suburbs can grow together. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.
33. Pastor, M., C. Benner and M. Matsuoka (2009) This could be the start of something big: how social movements for regional equity are reshaping metropolitan America. Cornell University Press, Cornell.
34. Pulido, L. (1996) Multiracial organizing among environmental justice activists in Los Angeles. In M. Dear, E. Schockman and G. Hise (eds.), Rethinking Los Angeles, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA.
35. Pulido, L. (2002) Race and revolutionary politics: black, Chicana/o, and Asian American leftists in Southern California. Antipode 34.4, 762-88.
36. Purcell, M. (2008) Recapturing democracy: neoliberalization and the struggle for alternative urban futures. Routledge, New York.
37. Sassen, S. (1991) The global city: New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
38. Saunders, P. (1986) Social theory and the urban question. Second edition, Holmes and Meier Publishers Inc, New York.
39. Shearmur, R. (2008) Chicago and L.A.: a clash of epistemologies. Urban Geography 29.2, 167-76.
40. Scott, A. (1988) Metropolis: from the division of labor to urban form. University of California Press, Berkeley.
41. Scott, A. (1999) Los Angeles and the LA School: a response to Curry and Kenney. Antipode 31.1, 29-36.
42. Scott, A. and M. Storper (eds.) (1986) Production, work, territory: the geographical anatomy of industrial capitalism. University of California Press, Berkeley.
43. Scott, A., J. Agnew, E. Soja and M. Storper (2001) Global city regions. In A. Scott (ed.), Global city-regions: trends, theory, policy, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
44. Simmel, G. (1950) The metropolis and mental life. In K. Wolff (ed.), The sociology of Georg Simmel, Free Press, Glencoe, IL.
45. Soja, E. (1989) Postmodern geographies: the reassertion of space in critical social theory. Verso, London.
46. Soja, E. (1996a) Los Angeles, 1965-1992: from crisis-generated restructuring to restructuring-generated crisis. In A. Scott and E. Soja (eds.), The city: Los Angeles and urban theory at the end of the twentieth century, University of California Press, Berkeley.
47. Soja, E. (1996b) Thirdspace: journeys to Los Angeles and other real-and-imagined places. Blackwell, Oxford.
48. Soja, E. (1996c) Margin/alia: social justice and the new cultural politics. In A. Merrifield and E. Swyngedouw (eds.), The urbanization of injustice, Lawrence and Wishart, London.
49. Soja, E. (2000) Postmetropolis: critical studies of cities and regions. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford.
50. Soja, E., R. Morales and G. Wolff (1983) Urban restructuring: an analysis of social and spatial change in Los Angeles. Economic Geography 59, 195-230.
51. Storper, M. (1997) The regional world: territorial development in a global economy. Guilford Press, New York and London.
52. Storper, M. and S. Chistopherson (1987) Flexible specialization and regional industrial agglomeration: the case of the USA motion picture industry. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 77, 104-17.
53. Storper, M. and R. Walker (1989) The capitalist imperative: territory, technology and industrial growth. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
54. Wachs, M. (1996) The evolution of transportation policy in Los Angeles: images of past policies and future prospects. In A. Scott and E. Soja (eds.), The city: Los Angeles and urban theory at the end of the twentieth century, University of California Press, Berkeley.
55. Waldinger, R. (1996) Ethnicity and opportunity in the plural city. In R. Waldinger and M. Bozorgmehr (eds.), Ethnic Los Angeles, Russell Sage Foundation, New York.
56. Waldinger, R. and M. Bozorgmehr (1996) The making of a multicultural metropolis. In R. Waldinger and M. Bozorgmehr (eds.), Ethnic Los Angeles, Russell Sage Foundation, New York.
57. Wirth, L. (1938) Urbanism as a way of life. American Journal of Sociology 44, 3-24.
58. Wolch, J. (1990) The shadow state: government and voluntary sector in transition. Foundation Center, New York.
59. Wolch, J. (1996) From global to local: the rise of homelessness in Los Angeles during the 1980s. In A. Scott and E. Soja (eds.), The city: Los Angeles and urban theory at the end of the twentieth century, University of California Press, Berkeley.
60. Wolch, J. and M. Dear (1993) Malign neglect: homelessness in an American city. Jossey Bass Wiley, San Francisco.
61. Wright, E.O. (1997) Class counts. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.