Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Los Angeles Central Business District Redevelopment
Author: Los Angeles Union Station Run-through Tracks Project
Author: Los Angeles Downtown People Mover Project
Author: United States. Urban Mass Transportation AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central business districts
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Regional Connector Transit Corridor Project
Author: City of Segregation
Author: Andrea GibbonsPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1786632721
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A majestic one-hundred-year study of segregation in Los Angeles City of Segregation documents one hundred years of struggle against the enforced separation of racial groups through property markets, constructions of community, and the growth of neoliberalism. This movement history covers the decades of work to end legal support for segregation in 1948; the 1960s Civil Rights movement and CORE’s efforts to integrate LA’s white suburbs; and the 2006 victory preserving 10,000 downtown residential hotel units from gentrification enfolded within ongoing resistance to the criminalization and displacement of the homeless. Andrea Gibbons reveals the shape and nature of the racist ideology that must be fought, in Los Angeles and across the United States, if we hope to found just cities.
Azusa CBD Redevelopment Plan
Author: California. Court of Appeal (2nd Appellate District). Records and Briefs
Author: California (State).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Number of Exhibits: 1
The Condition of Financial Institutions
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer CreditPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
An Equal Place
Author: Scott L. CummingsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190215941
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
An Equal Place is a monumental study of the role of lawyers in the movement to challenge economic inequality in one of America's most unequal cities: Los Angeles. Breaking with the traditional focus on national civil rights history, the book turns to the stories of contemporary lawyers, on the front lines and behind the scenes, who use law to reshape the meaning of low-wage work in the local economy. Covering a transformative period of L.A. history, from the 1992 riots to the 2008 recession, Scott Cummings presents an unflinching account of five pivotal campaigns in which lawyers ally with local movements to challenge the abuses of garment sweatshops, the criminalization of day labor, the gentrification of downtown retail, the incursion of Wal-Mart groceries, and the misclassification of port truck drivers. Through these campaigns, lawyers and activists define the city as a space for redefining work in vital industries transformed by deindustrialization, outsourcing, and immigration. Organizing arises outside of traditional labor law, powered by community-labor and racial justice groups using levers of local government to ultimately change the nature of labor law itself. Cummings shows that sophisticated legal strategy — engaging yet extending beyond courts, in which lawyers are equal partners in social movements — is an indispensable part of the effort to make L.A. a more equal place. Challenging accounts of lawyers' negative impact on movements, Cummings argues that the L.A. campaigns have achieved meaningful reform, while strengthening the position of workers in local politics, through legal innovation. Dissecting the reasons for failure alongside the conditions for success, this groundbreaking book illuminates the crucial role of lawyers in forging a new model of city-building for the twenty-first century.
Down, Out &Under Arrest
Author: Forrest StuartPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022637095X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
“A well-supported critique of therapeutic policing and, by extension, of similar paternalistic efforts to help the poor by hassling them into good behavior.” —Los Angeles Times In his first year working in Los Angeles’s Skid Row, Forrest Stuart was stopped on the street by police fourteen times. Usually for doing little more than standing there. Juliette, a woman he met during that time, has been stopped by police well over one hundred times, arrested upward of sixty times, and has given up more than a year of her life serving week-long jail sentences. Her most common crime? Simply sitting on the sidewalk—an arrestable offense in LA. Why? What purpose did those arrests serve, for society or for Juliette? How did we reach a point where we’ve cut support for our poorest citizens, yet are spending ever more on policing and prisons? That’s the complicated, maddening story that Stuart tells in Down, Out & Under Arrest, a close-up look at the hows and whys of policing poverty in the contemporary United States. What emerges from Stuart’s years of fieldwork—not only with Skid Row residents, but with the police charged with managing them—is a tragedy built on mistakes and misplaced priorities more than on heroes and villains. At a time when distrust between police and the residents of disadvantaged neighborhoods has never been higher, Stuart’s book helps us see where we’ve gone wrong, and what steps we could take to begin to change the lives of our poorest citizens—and ultimately our society itself—for the better.