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the aerospace century in Southern California
By Peter J. Westwick
"Blue sky metropolis" was published by Published for Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West by University of California Press and Huntington Library, San Marino, California in 2012 - Berkeley, Calif, it has 308 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Blue sky metropolis” Metadata:
- Title: Blue sky metropolis
- Author: Peter J. Westwick
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 308
- Publisher: ➤ Published for Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West by University of California Press and Huntington Library, San Marino, California
- Publish Date: 2012
- Publish Location: Berkeley, Calif
“Blue sky metropolis” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Social conditions - Aerospace industries - Economic conditions - History - California, history - California, social conditions - California, economic conditions - Social aspects - Economic history - Social history - Luftfahrtindustrie
- Places: Southern California
- Time: 20th century
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: p. cm.
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL25078592M - OL16215696W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 758098927
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2011042199
- ISBN-13: 9780873282499
- All ISBNs: 9780873282499
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"Blue sky metropolis" Table Of Contents:
- 1- Photoessay: An Album of Early Southern California Aviation / Peter J. Westwick
- 2- section I: The Human Element
- 3- Lost in Aerospace / D.J. Waldie
- 4- Cold Warrior's Daughter / M.G. Lord
- 5- section II: The Work
- 6- Robert E. Gross and the Rise of Lockheed : The Creative Tension between Engineering and Finance / Sherman N. Mullin
- 7- Los Angeles Aircraft Workers and the Consolidation of Cold War Politics / Anita Seth
- 8- The Vanishing Act : Stealth Airplanes and Cold War Southern California / Mihir Pandya
- 9- section III: Culture
- 10- Spaces for the Space Age : William Pereira's Aerospace Modernism / Stuart W. Leslie
- 11- Aerospace and Hollywood : How Computer Animation Went from Space to Cineplex / Peter J. Westwick
- 12- From L5 to X Prize : California's Alternative Space Movement / W. Patrick McCray
- 13- section IV: Communities
- 14- Engineering a New Space : Chinese American Scientists and Engineers in Aerospace in Southern California / Zuoyue Wang
- 15- The Air Force and the Chumash : The "Curse of Slick-6" / Dwayne A. Day
- 16- section V: Geography
- 17- Aerospace in the Rest of California : The View from Silicon Valley / Glenn E. Bugos
- 18- Blueprinting the Regional City : The Urban and Environmental Legacies of the Air Industry in Southern California / Wade Graham
- 19- Afterword / Philip Scranton.
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