Postborder City: Cultural Spaces of Bajalta California [Hardcover]

Michael Dear (Editor), Gustavo Leclerc (Editor)

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Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (Aug 21 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415944198
ISBN-13: 978-0415944199
Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 16 x 2.4 cm
Shipping Weight: 626 g

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The postborder metropolis of Bajalta California stretches from Los Angeles in the north to Tijuana and Mexicali in the south. Immigrants from all over the globe flock to Southern California, while corporations are drawn to the low wage industry of the Mexican border towns, echoing developments in other rapid growth areas such as Phoenix, El Paso, and San Antonio. This incredibly diverse, transnational megacity is giving birth to new cultural and artistic forms as it rapidly evolves into something unique in the world. Postborder City is a genuinely interdisciplinary investigation of the hybrid culture on both sides of the increasingly fluid U. S.-Mexico border, spanning the disciplines of art and art history, urban planning, geography, Latina/o studies, and American studies.

About the Author

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.

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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

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