Essential Los Angeles   Tags: art, gangs, graffiti, los angeles, los angeles river, pasadena  

This guide will help you with topics unique to Los Angeles and the surrounding areas; with links to books, dvds, magazines and websites.

Use the tabs above to find materials for each topic. Scrolling over a title will redirect you to the catalogue. Scrolling over the image will redirect you to Amazon

The city observed, Los Angeles
Los Angeles A to Z
Los Angeles, a city apart
Los Angeles, an illustrated history
The drive-in, the supermarket, and the transformation of commercial space in Los Angeles, 1914-1941
L.A. freeway an appreciative essay
L.A. now
LA unconventional
The history of forgetting : Los Angeles and the erasure of memory
The lonely queue: the forgotten history of the courageous Chinese Americans in Los Angeles
Los Angeles then and now
Only in Los Angeles
The postmodern urban condition
Rethinking Los Angeles
Wilshire Boulevard: grand concourse of Los Angeles
Cool shops, Los Angeles
Los Angeles [magazine]

Southern California region

The California pop-up book [Disney concert Hall, Watts towers]
Southern Californialand
Hollywood now & then
Camera over Hollywood
The complete book of Oscar fashion
The story of Hollywood: an illustrated history
Hip Hollywood homes
Altadena between wilderness and city
Historic Pasadena
Pasadena in vintage postcards

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