Woodland Hills v. City Council of Los Angeles: Electoral Politics and Quasi-Judicial Fairness

Effect of health maintenance programs on Los Angeles City firefighters.

A Cancer Risk Assessment of Inner-City Teenagers Living in New York City and Los Angeles

BACKGROUND The Toxics Exposure Assessment Columbia-Harvard (TEACH) project assessed exposures and cancer risks from urban air pollutants in a population of high school teenagers in New York City (NYC) and Los Angeles (LA). Forty-six high school students participated in NYC and 41 in LA, most in two seasons in 1999 and 2000, respectively. METHODS Personal, indoor home, and outdoor home 48-hr s...

Application of three fault growth criteria to the Puente Hills thrust system, Los Angeles, California, USA

Three-dimensional mechanical models are used to evaluate the performance of different fault growth criteria in predicting successive growth of three échelon thrust faults similar to the segments of the Puente Hills thrust system of the Los Angeles basin, California. Four sequential Boundary Element Method models explore the growth of successive échelon faults within the system by simulating sna...

Post-Multicultural Cities: A Comparison of Minority Politics in Amsterdam and Los Angeles, 1970–2010

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Los Angeles Studies

Writings on Los Angeles highlight the city as a flashpoint for theoretical and empirical research on postmodernism, post-Fordism, globalization, urban spatial development, cultural heterogeneity, and symbolic mediation. This essay reviews a selection of books and articles that take Los Angeles as their topic of study and argues that these writings signal the emergence of a specialty field that ...