CITY AT THE EDGE OF FOREVER

An engaging account of the uniquely creative spirit and bustling cultural ecology of contemporary Los AngelesHow did Los Angeles sta rt the 20th century as a dusty frontier town and end up a century later as one of the globe's supercities - with unparalleled cultur al, economic, and technological reach? In City at the Edge of Forever, Peter Lunenfeld constructs an urban portrait, layer by layer, from serendipitous affinities, historical anomalies, and uncanny correspondences. In its pages, modernist architecture and lifestyl e capita...[Read more]