Description: Los Angeles is undergoing a makeover. Leaving behind its image as all freeways and suburbs, sunshine and noir, it is reinventing itself for the twenty-first century as a walkable, pedestrian friendly, ecologically healthy and global urban hotspot of fashion and style, while driving initiatives to rejuvenate its downtown core, public spaces and e...
Brief description: Markus Reisenleitner is professor in the Department of Humanities at York University.
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'L.A. Chic gives us an understanding of complex dynamics playing out in real time, remaining faithful to not only locations, but their trajectories. Los Angeles is more than just a place with microcultures or sets of institutions, processes and resources, but an agile location that rewards agility for those living and working there.'