Looking for Regionalism in All the Wrong Places

Demography, Geography, and Community in Los Angeles County

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6405069
AutoresManuel Pastor (0000-0002-4638-3778, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Año2001
Volumen36
Número6
Páginas747-782
Fecha de publicación2001-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaUrban Affairs Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/10780870122185082
OpenAlexW2031510140
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas19

The new regionalism tends to emphasize the commonalities of central cities and their suburbs. Los Angeles County has surprisingly minor differences between central city and suburb—leading one to wonder why municipal alliances across jurisdictional lines have not been more prominent. The author tackles this anomaly by breaking L.A. County into 58 different areas and tracking demographic and economic change between 1970 and 1990. The analysis suggests that there are important differences in the ethnic and economic dynamics of various subregions. As a result, “smart-growth” politics may have less salience in Los Angeles than would an alternative regionalism rooted in community-based movements and organizations

Development economics · Economic geography · Economics · Ethnic group · Geography · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Regionalism (politics · Salience (neuroscience · Sociology · Wonder · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Law · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies