Andrew Rolle's Los Angeles: From Pueblo to City of the Future
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Andrew Rolle's Los Angeles: From Pueblo to City of the Future published in 1995 is an expanded and revised edition of a book published in 1981 during Los Angeles' bicentennial year. Although the book overall is a booster of Los Angeles, Rolle does not shirk from discussing many of the city's major and chronic problems such as lack of water, lack of public transportation, unregulated growth, ethnic tensions and gang culture.One of the book's major themes is that Los Angeles "has equated technological expansion with human problems" resulting in a host of problems (6). Rolle contends that ethnically diverse Los Angeles is not a melting pot but "a mosaic of many different nationalities and races" which results in a Balkanized Los Angeles with a "diminished chance for
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Approximate Word count = 518
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page)
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