Musicant, Marilyn (Author)
Roth, Matthew W. (Contributor)
Deverall, William (Contributor)
The Getty Research Institute
Physical Details: xv + 109 pp.
Language: English
Union Station today is a celebrated architectural icon and vibrant centerpiece of Los Angeles's regional transportation network. Designed by John and Donald B. Parkinson, its mission revival architecture speaks to a mythic vision of Spanish heritage, but with streamline moderne and art deco details. At first glance this masterpiece, conceived as a magnificent gateway to the growing metropolis, offers no hint of the civic, financial, and legal battles surrounding its development, siting, style, and construction--battles that were waged across decades in the early twentieth century and that went as high as the U.S. Supreme Court. Los Angeles Union Station explores this compelling example of how transit and corporations disrupted regional balances of power and political economies. Aided by new research and beautiful drawings from the Getty Research Institute's archive, the authors demonstrate how contentious politics informed architectural design--and the many ways in which Union Station was at the heart of the rise of Los Angeles. The book accompanies the exhibition No Further West, on view at the Los Angeles Public Library from May 2 through August 10, 2014.
...MoreReview Norris Pope (Fall/Winter 2014) Review of "Los Angeles Union Station". Railroad History (pp. 91-92).
Similar Citations
Book
Marvin Clemons;
(2016)
Great Temple of Travel: A Pictorial History of Birmingham Terminal Station, 1909-1969
(/isis/citation/CBB606027758/)
Book
Fred Ash;
(2018)
Chicago Union Station
(/isis/citation/CBB824939399/)
Book
Roberts, Sam;
(2013)
Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America
(/isis/citation/CBB001213238/)
Book
Brian Solomon;
(2015)
Railway Depots, Stations, & Terminals
(/isis/citation/CBB086177302/)
Book
Sundman, Jim;
(2016)
Pennsylvania Main Line Railroad Stations: Philadelphia to Harrisburg
(/isis/citation/CBB168572204/)
Book
Morrison, David D.;
(2016)
Sunnyside Yard and Hell Gate Bridge
(/isis/citation/CBB843440637/)
Book
Jerald Podair;
(2017)
City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles
(/isis/citation/CBB708678452/)
Book
Richard L. Schmeling;
Michael M. Bartels;
(2018)
The Trains of Lincoln Station
(/isis/citation/CBB678831831/)
Book
Ken Fitzgerald;
(2017)
Train Stations, Then and Now
(/isis/citation/CBB799036632/)
Article
Richard W. Luckin;
(Fall-Winter 2018)
Short Takes: Utica Union Station
(/isis/citation/CBB031762126/)
Book
Gretchen Garner;
(2016)
Winold Reiss and the Cincinnati Union Terminal: Fanfare for the Common Man
(/isis/citation/CBB986321711/)
Article
Hansen, Peter A.;
(Fall-Winter 2007)
Short Takes: Erie Union Station Turns 100
(/isis/citation/CBB943702434/)
Book
James Zarsadiaz;
(2022)
Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A.
(/isis/citation/CBB646453225/)
Book
Sonia Hirt;
(2014)
Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation
(/isis/citation/CBB187954773/)
Book
Amy D. Finstein;
(2020)
Modern mobility aloft : Elevated highways, architecture, and urban change in pre-interstate America
(/isis/citation/CBB845299669/)
Book
Adnan Morshed;
(2015)
Impossible Heights: Skyscrapers, Flight, and the Master Builder
(/isis/citation/CBB234169728/)
Book
David Naylor;
(2012)
Railroad Stations: The Buildings that Linked the Nation
(/isis/citation/CBB329217209/)
Article
Hansen, Jan;
(2019)
Das Steuern und Regeln von Infrastrukturen und der Wasseralltag in Los Angeles (1870–1920) [Control and Regulation of Infrastructures and Everyday Water Life in Los Angeles (1870-1920)]
(/isis/citation/CBB820023036/)
Article
(Fall-Winter 2010)
Short Takes: Railroad Exhibit at Baker Library, Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass.
(/isis/citation/CBB751662697/)
Book
Roy, John H., Jr.;
(2007)
A Field Guide to Southern New England Railroad Depots and Freight Houses
(/isis/citation/CBB053608565/)
Be the first to comment!