"Cover"--"Half Title"--"Title" -- "Dedication" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Chapter 1: Introduction" -- "Multiplicities/Multiple-cities" -- "Chapter 2: History of Planning" -- "Challenging the Myth of an Unplanned Los Angeles" -- "Regulating Visual Blight" -- "The 1970 Centers Concept Plan for Los Angeles" -- "LA's Love-Hate Relationship with Nature" -- "Neighborhood Councils" -- "Everyday Los Angeles" -- "The City as Textbook" -- "Chapter 3: Evolving Demographics" -- "Metropolis of Dispersed Diversity" -- "The Ambiguous Legacies of the 1992 Riots" -- "Tinker-Toy Urbanism" -- "Minority-Majority Suburbs Change the San Gabriel Valley" -- "LA Housing Stories" -- "Finding Public Space on Private Beaches" -- "Chapter 4: Land-Use and Environmental Policies" -- "One Hundred Years of Land-Use Regulation" -- "Almost New Urbanism" -- "Glendale's Downtown Specific Plan" -- "Regreening the LA River" -- "Planning as a Tool for Battling the Fast-Food Invasion" -- "More Than a PSA" -- "Chapter 5: Mobility and Infrastructure" -- "Back to the Future in Transportation Planning" -- "Regional Planning in Southern California" -- "Ballot Box Planning for Transit" -- "Reducing Pollution at the Port" -- "Systemic Change Through CicLAvia" -- "A Train on Rubber Tires" -- "Chapter 6: Parks and Public Space" -- "Green Spaces in the Auto Metropolis" -- "The Afterlife of a Master Plan" -- "An Orchard Spirals Out" -- "Reestablishing the Connection with Physical Planning and Design" -- "Managing Development Through Urban Growth Boundaries" -- "Unpaving Paradise: The Green Visions Plan" -- "Planning a Great Civic Park" -- "Chapter 7: Economic Development" -- "Policy and Community in Los Angeles Development" -- "A Planning Ordinance Injects New Life into Historic Downtown" -- "The Evolution of Entertainment Retail" -- "Politics of Food and Culture