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GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW
Volume 95, Issue 4, Pages 578-593Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2005.tb00382.x
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beaches; California; coastal access; Los Angeles; public place
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In the public-space discourse Los Angeles is usually portrayed as more anti-city than city. Its landscape is overrun by houses, private-public squares and plazas, theme parks, shopping malls, and so on and lacks inclusive public places. Yet this discourse has essentially disdained to contemplate a major public space that contradicts its general thesis: the Los Angeles coast. The coast is meaningful public place in two specific senses. First, it symbolizes Los Angeles as a whole and therefore provides a basis for regional public identity. Second, Angelinos themselves take the coast seriously as a public place, and they have striven to make it inclusive in practice.
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