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Download or read book The Fragmented Metropolis written by Robert M. Fogelson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-06-09 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here with a new preface, a new foreword, and an updated bibliography is the definitive history of Los Angeles from its beginnings as an agricultural village of fewer than 2,000 people to its emergence as a metropolis of more than 2 million in 1930—a city whose distinctive structure, character, and culture foreshadowed much of the development of urban America after World War II.