This title concerns the postborder metropolis of Bajalta, California, which stretches from Los Angeles in the north to Tijuana and Mexicali in the south. Immigrants flock to Southern California, while corporations are drawn to the low wage industry of the Mexican border towns.
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Michael Dear is Professor of Geography and Director of the Southern California Studies Center at USC.
Gustavo LeClerc is partner and founding member of ADOBE LA (Artists, Architects and Designers Opening the Border Edge of Los Angeles) since 1992.
Gustavo LeClerc is partner and founding member of ADOBE LA (Artists, Architects and Designers Opening the Border Edge of Los Angeles) since 1992.
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Today, urban life is a gift: a daily negotiation that reconciles opposites, a contrast between genuine ugliness and prefabricated beauty, between a never-arriving prosperity and an ever-expanding poverty. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
postborder condition, border cinema, transfrontier metropolis, border art, literal site, border films, border door, tourism districts, fragmented metropolis, border residents Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Baja California, San Diego, Los Angeles, New York, Mexico City, San Francisco, Elusive Eden, Agua Caliente, Mexicali Valley, North American, Colorado River, Chicano Park, Border Art Workshop, David Piñera Ramirez, San Ysidro, World War, Historia de Tijuana, University of California, Revolution Avenue, Una Historia, Alta California, Border Patrol, Hong Kong, Latin America New!
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Today, urban life is a gift: a daily negotiation that reconciles opposites, a contrast between genuine ugliness and prefabricated beauty, between a never-arriving prosperity and an ever-expanding poverty. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
postborder condition, border cinema, transfrontier metropolis, border art, literal site, border films, border door, tourism districts, fragmented metropolis, border residents Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Baja California, San Diego, Los Angeles, New York, Mexico City, San Francisco, Elusive Eden, Agua Caliente, Mexicali Valley, North American, Colorado River, Chicano Park, Border Art Workshop, David Piñera Ramirez, San Ysidro, World War, Historia de Tijuana, University of California, Revolution Avenue, Una Historia, Alta California, Border Patrol, Hong Kong, Latin America New!
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- Oral History by Lee Smith on page 246, and Back Matter
- On The Edge by E. D. Arrington in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Strangers to Ourselves by Julia Kristeva on page 177, and page 181
- The Great Wall of China and Other Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Clas) by Franz Kafka on page 249, and page 250
- RC Series Bundle: The Location of Culture (Routledge Classics) by Homi K. Bhabha in Front Matter, and page 285
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