MacArthur Park

2015

Douglas MacArthur, an act that on its own was not fatal to the park. However, the injury was inflicted on the local community, which was unhappy with the name change. At MacArthur Park, memory, culture, and imagination share the same ...

Author: Jose A. Gardea

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

ISBN: 9781467133456

Category: History

Page: 128

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Known as Westlake Park for its first 60 years, MacArthur Park is considered one of Los Angeles's original parks. Throughout its history, it has endured countless challenges as the neighborhood and city that surround it grew to become the current metropolis. Born out of progressive vision and drought, MacArthur Park, due to its elegant design and cultural programming, has been referred as a "civic jewel" and the West Coast version of Central Park. Like many urban parks, it has also been burdened with a negative image due to its many decades of neglect, crime, and municipal disinvestment. Today, MacArthur Park has survived as a critical green and cultural space for one of the most densely populated neighborhoods in the country. More importantly, MacArthur Park has served as an authentic democratic space for local stakeholders and visitors to gather, play, and protest.
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MacArthur Park

2021-10-12

A Novel Judith Freeman. ALSO BY JUDITH FREEMAN The Latter Days The Long Embrace Red Water A Desert of Pure Feeling Set for Life The Chinchilla Farm Family Attractions Mac Arthur Park MacArthur Park JUDITH FREEMAN Pantheon Books New.

Author: Judith Freeman

Publisher: Pantheon

ISBN: 9780593315965

Category: Fiction

Page: 385

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A captivating, emotionally taut novel about the complexities of a friendship between two women—and how it shapes, and reshapes, both of their lives "Filled with gorgeous prose and deep emotion . . . Explores what it means to be an artist, delves into the vicissitudes of life and death, and takes us on journey through the splendor (and sometimes ugliness) of the American West—with dollops of Flaubert, Faulkner, Chekhov, Collette, and Chandler along the way."—Lisa See, author of The Island of Sea Women Jolene and Verna share complicated ties that have crystallized over time. Beginning when they were girls discovering their needs and desires, their ongoing stories have been inextricably linked. But when Verna marries Vincent, Jolene’s ex-husband, their paths may have finally, permanently diverged. A successful and provocative feminist artist, Jolene travels the world, attracting attention wherever she goes. Verna, a writer, works from her home near MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, where she and Vincent plan to spend the rest of their lives in a contemplative, intimate routine. Then Jolene asks one more favor of Verna—to take a road trip with her to their small hometown in Utah. It’s a journey that will force them to confront both the truths and falsehoods of their memories of each other and of the very beginnings of their friendship, and to reckon with the meaning of love, of time itself, of the bonds that matter most to us, and with what we owe one another.
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Dave Barry s Book of Bad Songs

2000-03

Naturally it turns out that there is a small but vocal group of people who like , even LOVE , " MacArthur Park . " After the survey results were published , these people wrote me irate letters arguing that this song is a masterpiece and ...

Author: Dave Barry

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

ISBN: 0740706004

Category: Humor

Page: 116

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How "MacArthur Park" goes, so I sang it, giving it my best shot, and Rob laughed so hard that when I got to the part about leaving the cake out in the rain, and it took so long to bake it, and I'll never have that recipe again, Rob was on the floor."
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The Urban Condition

1999

35 The first sketches for this contribution were made in the Park Plaza Hotel , the former Elks Building by Curlett and Beelman from 1927 , which dominates MacArthur Park by its American Art Deco exterior , its multi - story sculptures ...

Author: Ghent Urban Studies Team

Publisher: 010 Publishers

ISBN: 9064503559

Category: Areas metropolitanas

Page: 456

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What does the Western city at the end of the twentieth century look like? How did the modern metropolis of congestion and density turn into a posturban or even postsuburban cityscape? What are edge cities and technoburbs? How has the social composition of cities changed in the postwar era? What do gated communities tell us about social fragmentation? Is public space in the contemporary city being privatized and militarized? How can the urban self still be defined? What role does consumer aestheticism have to play in this? These and many more questions are addressed by this uniquely conceived multidisciplinary study. The Urban Condition seeks to interfere in current debates over the future and interpretation of our urban landscapes by reuniting studies of the city as a physical and material phenomenon and as a cultural and mental (arte)fact. The Ghent Urban Studies Team responsible for the writing and editing of this volume is directed by Kristiaan Versluys and Dirk De Meyer at the University of Ghent, Belgium. It is an interdisciplinary research team of young academics that further consists of Kristiaan Borret, Bart Eeckhout, Steven Jacobs, and Bart Keunen. The collective expertise of GUST ranges from architectural theory, urban planning, and art history to philosophy, literary criticism and cultural theory.
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Immigrants and the Revitalization of Los Angeles

MacArthur Park was an unregulated space where vices could be fulfilled and were left ignored by the city. Once the gaze of redevelopment was upon this no man's land, as the subway station plans got underway, illicit activities drew ...

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Publisher: Cambria Press

ISBN: 9781621969068

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Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement

1989

A statue of Hayn Solomon was moved from Hollenbeck Park to MacArthur Park in 1953 . Street furniture includes Nineteenth Century style carriage lamps designed by King Lighting A statue of General Douglas MacArthur was erected in 1955 .

Author: Southern California Rapid Transit District

Publisher:

ISBN: UCLA:L0074045931

Category: Local transit

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Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States

2017-04-25

Hector tobar's awardwinning novel The Tattooed Soldier (1998) takes place in MacArthur Park and demonstrates the chaotic environment that existed there throughout the 1990s and into the mid-2000s.21 tobar's fictional story is a tale of ...

Author: Domenic Vitiello

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

ISBN: 9780812249125

Category: Political Science

Page: 216

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After decades of urban crisis, American cities and suburbs have revived, thanks largely to immigration. This is the first book to explore the phenomenon, from big cities such as New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, to newer destinations such as Nashville and suburban Boston and New Jersey.
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Addendum to the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement subsequent Environmental Impact Statement

1988

Refer to the discussion on pages 3-159 to 3-160 of the FEIS ( 1983 ) and Section 14.3 , Chapter 3 of the Draft SEIS / SEIR for a discussion of construction impacts on MacArthur Park . Additional analysis of impacts to MacArthur Park has ...

Author: Southern California Rapid Transit District

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ISBN: UCLA:L0074045840

Category: Local transit

Page: 122

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LA Sports

2018-02-15

For more on the culture and character of MacArthur Park, see Kelly Main's Place Attachment and MacArthur Park: A Case Study for the Importance of Public Space in an Immigrant Neighborhood and the Implications for Local Planning ...

Author: Wayne Wilson

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

ISBN: 9781610756297

Category: Sports & Recreation

Page: 376

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LA Sports brings together sixteen essays covering various aspects of the development and changing nature of sport in one of America’s most fascinating and famous cities. The writers cover a range of topics, including the history of car racing and ice skating, the development of sport venues, the power of the Mexican fan base in American soccer leagues, the intersecting life stories of Jackie and Mack Robinson, the importance of the Showtime Lakers, the origins of Muscle Beach and surfing, sport in Hollywood films, and more.
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How Civic Action Works

2020-12-15

It shows in HSLA's application for a grant to fund construction of the “first version” of the MacArthur Park apartments— the version that would have won money to house lowincome seniors.32 Parts evidently had been cut and pasted from at ...

Author: Paul Lichterman

Publisher: Princeton University Press

ISBN: 9780691212333

Category: Law

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"This book develops a new way to think about how social advocacy works in everyday life. Varied scholarly approaches to social advocacy over the past four decades have tended to highlight skilled actors who craft rhetorical appeals and pursue resources and opportunities strategically to win their ends. Lichterman argues that this approach presents a thin view of culture and oversimplifies action as a product of collective actors whose speech and action do not vary by setting. In this study of housing advocacy, he turns the analytic lens away from the actors to the social settings and the cultural contexts of unfolding action, which allows him to develop a more precise explanation of success and failure. Lichterman draws on four years of ethnographic research on four campaigns, three coalitions, and twelve organizations that took up affordable housing, homelessness, and related problems in Los Angeles. The author follows how the actors' identities, claims and strategies unfold in specific settings as they promote new legislation, oppose gentrification, build affordable housing, and pursue health and environmental issues alongside housing problems. He finds that the discursive fields are crucial contexts that influence the work and that organization style powerfully shapes civic action. How Civic Action Works offers a new conceptual framework and research agenda for studies of social advocacy"--
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