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- Title
Mulholland Highway and the Engineering Culture of Los Angeles in the 1920s.
- Authors
Roth, Matthew W.
- Abstract
Offers a background of disappointment and canceled road projects that conditioned the engineers' response to the Mulholland Highway proposal in Los Angeles, California in the 1920s. Historiography of transportation in Los Angeles; Extant explanations of Los Angeles transportation; Role of the city engineers; Political context of roadbuilding in 1920s; Machinations of the real estate sector; Difficulties attending the early years of the highway's operation.
- Subjects
CALIFORNIA; LOS Angeles (Calif.); UNITED States; ROAD construction; TRANSPORTATION
- Publication
Technology & Culture, 1999, Vol 40, Issue 3, p545
- ISSN
0040-165X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/tech.1999.0153