Acknowledgments

Introduction
Charles G. Salas and Michael S. Roth

"Autopia" (1973) and Passages from "The Language of Images" (1987)
Cees Nooteboom

Ghost Neighborhoods: Space, Time, and Alienation in Los Angeles
Philip J. Ethington

"Where the Working Man Is Welcomed": Working-Class Suburbs in Los Angeles, 1900-1940
Becky M. Nicolaides

Fugitive Plans in the Provisional City: Slums and Public Housing in Los Angeles
Dana Cuff

Photographic Mistakes on a Gangster Holiday
Susan A. Phillips

Segments from "Along Alameda Looking East"
Robbert Flick

Broadacre in Brentwood? The Politics of Architectural Aesthetics
Harold Zellman and Roger Friedland

Photography, Architecture, and the Coming to Oneself: Edmund Teske and Frank Lloyd Wright
Thomas S. Hines

Hollywood's Los Angeles: Two Paradigms
Robert Carringer

An Impossible Cinema? The Proletarian Avant-Garde in Los Angeles
David E. James

The Everyday Imagery of Space in Los Angeles
Jérome Monnet

Biographical Notes on the Authors

Illustration Credits

Index