LA's maze: culture, chaos, glamour, and grit.
Los Angeles is a city of paradoxes—glittering yet gritty, superficial yet substantial—and "The Rough Guide to Los Angeles 3" is like a key that helps unlock its intricate puzzles. If you're looking for a guide that sidesteps the clichés and shows the City of Angels in all its chaotic splendor, this book captures that perfect blend of practical information and evocative storytelling. You'll come to appreciate LA's sprawling diversity and find hidden gems beyond the well-trodden Hollywood Walk of Fame.
ISBN: 9781843530589
Authors:
Jeff D. Dickey
Publisher: Rough Guides
Date of Publication: 2003-08-25
Format: Paperback
Related Topics:
Guidebook,
Travelogue,
American History,
World History,
Travel,
History,
Social Issues,
Travel
Goodreads rating: 3.36
(rated by 11 readers)
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Introduction A maddening collection of freeways and beaches, fast-food joints and theme parks, seedy suburbs and high-gloss neighborhoods, Los Angeles is California’s biggest and most stimulating city – though an unconventional one by any standard. Indeed, LA’s character is so shifting and elusive – understandable "only dimly, and in flashes," according to F. Scott Fitzgerald – that the city might be freely dismissed by many outsiders if it weren’t so central to the world’s mass culture. Its multiple personalities and lack of any unifying design make it seem at first neither approachable, nor perhaps even enjoyable; but once the free-spirited chaos of the place takes hold, you’ll be hard-pressed to resist. Made up of scores of distinct municipalities, LA is a model for modern city development, having traded urban centralization for suburban sprawl and high-rise corporate towers for strip malls. It gets more than ample opportunity to show off its wares because of its stature as global entertainment center, which paints a picture of a sunny and glamorous place like no other. It is certainly unique, an unpredictable and addictive assault on the senses, where mud-wrestling venues and porn cinemas stand next door to chic boutiques and trendy restaurants, the whole of it under constant threat of the next earthquake, flood, or natural disaster. Despite this uniqueness, LA has much in common with other major US cities. With the largest combined port
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