Los Angeles and the Automobile

Los Angeles and the Automobile
Author: Scott L. Bottles
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1987
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520057951

More comprehensive than any other book on this topic, Los Angeles and the Automobile places the evolution of Los Angeles within the context of American political and urban history.

The Big Book of Tiny Cars

The Big Book of Tiny Cars
Author: Russell Hayes
Publisher: Motorbooks International
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2021-12-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0760370621

The Big Book of Tiny Cars presents entertaining profiles of automotive history’s most famous—and infamous—microcars and subcompacts from 1901 to today. Illustrated with photos and period ads.

Los Angeles and the Automobile

Los Angeles and the Automobile
Author: Scott L. Bottles
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 1987
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0520073959

More comprehensive than any other book on this topic, Los Angeles and the Automobile places the evolution of Los Angeles within the context of American political and urban history.

Ashok Sinha

Ashok Sinha
Author: Ashok Sinha
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2022-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9783969000816

City Center to Regional Mall

City Center to Regional Mall
Author: Richard W. Longstreth
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 538
Release: 1997
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780262122009

Ten years in the making, this book is a sweeping yet detailed account of the development of the regional shopping center. The author takes an historical perspective, relating retail development to broad architectural, urban & cultural issues.

The Impossible Collection of Cars

The Impossible Collection of Cars
Author: Dan Neil
Publisher: Assouline Publishing
Total Pages: 6
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1614280150

It is the dream of many to own the world’s most beautifully designed automobiles, but most often only a handful of collectors ever come close. Now, The Impossible Collection of Cars makes that dream come true, showcasing the one hundred most exceptional cars of the twentieth century in ASSOULINE's third volume in the Impossible Collection series. Each luxury automobile—from the 1909 Blitzen Benz to a 1996 McLaren F1—was chosen for its revolutionary engineering, magnificent lines, and head-turning capabilities. Assouline is pleased to announce this exquisite tome, which features cars owned by celebrities like Marlene Dietrich, Ralph Lauren, Greta Garbo, Pablo Picasso, and Elvis Presley. This Impossible Collection volume is presented on cotton paper in a beautiful black rubber clamshell box with a cutout metal plate.

Lots of Parking

Lots of Parking
Author: John A. Jakle
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2004
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780813922669

"Like Jakle and Sculle's earlier works on car culture, Lots of Parking will fascinate professional planners, landscape designers, geographers, environmental historians, and interested citizens alike."--BOOK JACKET.

Kristin Bedford: Cruise Night

Kristin Bedford: Cruise Night
Author:
Publisher: Damiani Limited
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2021-04-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9788862087278

Scenes from the Mexican American lowrider life: a clothbound photobook documenting a vibrant LA car culture Known for her quiet portraits of American cultural movements, Los Angeles-based photographer Kristin Bedford's new work, Cruise Night, is an intimate and unstaged exploration of Los Angeles' Mexican American lowrider car culture. From 2014 to 2019 Bedford attended hundreds of lowrider cruise nights, car shows, quinceañeras, weddings and funerals. Her images offer a new visual narrative around the lowrider tradition and invite outsiders to question prevalent societal stereotypes surrounding this urban Mexican American culture. Bedford's photos explore the nuances of cars as mobile canvases and the legendary community that creates them. With bright color photography and a unique female vantage point, Cruise Nightis an original look at a prolific American movement set against the Los Angeles cityscape.

Automobile and Culture

Automobile and Culture
Author: Gerald Silk
Publisher: ABRAMS
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1984
Genre: Art
ISBN:

"Automobile and Culture" is replete with dazzling color photographs of great and humble cars, and is brimming with hundreds of paintings, sculptures, and posters. Astonishing in its scope and beauty, it moves from the first elaborate spring-driven vehicles conceived by Leonardo da Vinci to the auto-related works and dogma of the Futurists to the car imagery of the Surrealists, Dadaists, Pop artists, and Photo-Realists, and provides fascinating commentary on the continuing role of the automobile in art.