Zoning Los Angeles: A brief history of four regimes

Planning Perspectives

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 393-415

  Whittemore, Andrew H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Los angeles; Politics; Real estate; Urban regimes; Zoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007874848     PISSN: 02665433     EISSN: 14664518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02665433.2012.681140     Document Type: Article

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