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Article: New York and Los Angeles: Politics, Society, and Culture: a Comparative View.(Book Review)
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- June 1, 2004
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New York and Los Angeles: Politics, Society, and Culture: A Comparative View. Edited by David Halle. University of Chicago Press, 2003. 558 pp. Paper, $25.00.
New York City and Los Angeles are the two largest, most alluring, and global U.S. cities, but Chicago has long been the world capital of urban sociology, and the various methods and theories we call Chicago School remain influential after decades of criticism. Today an emerging group of urban geographers and planners in Los Angeles (led by Michael Dear, Allen Scott, and Edward Soja) are trying to establish their own school too, and sociologists from both coasts promote their cities as ideal living ...