Freewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles by Paul Haddad,... - 9781595801012

Freewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los AngelesAuthor(s): Paul Haddad, Patt Morrison\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Santa Monica Press, United States\nImprint: Santa Monica Press\nISBN-13: 9781595801012, 978-1595801012\nSynopsis\nFreewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles explores how social, economic, political, and cultural demands created the web of freeways whose very formfuturistic, majestic, and progressiveperfectly exemplifies the City of Angels.\nFrom the Arroyo Seco Parkway, which began construction during the Great Depression, to the Century Freeway, completed in 1993, author Paul Haddad provides an entertaining and thought-provoking history of the 527 miles of roadways that comprise the Los Angeles freeway system.\nEach of Los Angeless twelve freeways receives its own chapter, and these are supplemented by Off-Rampssidebars that dish out pithy factoids about Botts Dots, SigAlerts, and all matter of freeway lexicon, such as why Southern Californians are the only people in .