Los Angeles in the Thirties, 1931-1941

Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. A seminal study of the architecture of Los Angeles in the decade when the city came of age. The built environment reflected the optimism of the age and the place, where streamlined public architecture, the freedom and mobility of homeowners, modernist work by the likes of Neutra and Schindler combined in the glow of the Hollywood Dream Machine to create the fabric of Los Angeles.