Westwick, Peter J. (Editor)
Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West; University of California Press
Physical Details: xi + 308 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English
Why did Southern California become the aerospace capital of the world? What were the consequences of this development for the region, for the nation, and for aerospace itself? This title investigates the intersection of aerospace and Southern California through the lenses of anthropology, history of science and technology and labo
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Review Smith, Robert W. (2014) Review of "Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 384-385).
Essay Review Launius, Roger D. (2014) Realizing the New Aerospace History. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 187-195).
Chapter Mullin, Sherman N. (2012) Robert E. Gross and the Rise of Lockheed: The Creative Tension between Engineering and Finance. In: Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California (p. 57).
Chapter Pandya, Mihir (2012) The Vanishing Act: Stealth Airplanes and Cold War Southern California. In: Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California (p. 105).
Chapter Leslie, Stuart W. (2012) Spaces for the Space Age: William Pereira's Aerospace Modernism. In: Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California (p. 127).
Chapter McCray, Patrick (2012) From L5 to X Prize: California's Alternative Space Movement. In: Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California (p. 171).
Chapter Day, Dwayne A. (2012) The Air Force and the Chumash: The “Curse of Slick-6”. In: Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California (p. 215).
Chapter Bugos, Glenn E. (2012) Aerospace in the Rest of California: The View from Silicon Valley. In: Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California (p. 227).
Chapter Waldie, D. J. (2012) Lost in Aerospace. In: Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California (p. 37).
Chapter Lord, M. G. (2012) Cold Warrior's Daughter. In: Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California (p. 45).
Chapter Seth, Anita (2012) Los Angeles Aircraft Workers and the Consolidation of Cold War Politics. In: Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California (p. 79).
Chapter Westwick, Peter J. (2012) Aerospace and Hollywood: How Computer Animation Went from Space to Cineplex. In: Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California (p. 159).
Chapter Wang, Zuoyue (2012) Engineering a New Space: Chinese American Scientists and Engineers in Aerospace in Southern California. In: Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California (p. 197).
Chapter Graham, Wade (2012) Blueprinting the Regional City: The Urban Environmental Legacies of the Air Industry in Southern California. In: Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California (p. 247).
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