Los Angeles School

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The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at the University of Southern California and UCLA, that poses a challenge to the dominant Chicago School of Urbanism.

While the Chicago School presents a modernist theory of cities as based around central cores, the Los Angeles School proposes a postmodern vision where peripheral urban communities predominate over an evacuated city center. This re-visioning engenders a new consideration of accepted concepts like urban sprawl and suburbanization.

Key thinkers of the Los Angeles School include:

• Michael Dear
• Stephen Flusty
• Mike Davis (scholar)
• Allen J Scott
• Edward Soja
• Michael Storper
• Jennifer Wolch

[edit] See also

• Post-fordism
• Globalization

[edit] External links

• LA School of Urbanism at University of Southern California